Re: Upgrading a IIgs

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

   You can format partitions larger than 32MB for HFS (Mac-style), but
be warned that there are known (and some unknown but suspected) bugs
that'll corrupt files on disks. There aare also no disk fixer programs
for the GS; you'll have to either format and partition initially on a
Mac or jump thru some nasty hoops as Macs require a driver partition
before they'll recognize anything. [Making it *OPTIONAL* would have
saved a lot of headaches, but Macs just have to be Insanely
Incompatible (oops, was supposed to be Great, but ended up as wacky).]


If you are not going to put the hard drive on a Mac there is no reason to 
format it on a Mac, the GS works just fine with advanced disk utilities.
There is also a patch program that does put the Mac partition info on a
GS formated disk that works just fine with older Macs.

Owen Aland