Re: WTB SCSI HD

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5r9cb4$g6q$1@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

>   Ohhh, more scare tactics from the Mac-worshipper. Please, you're
>starting to sound like a TV advertisement from Macintosh Inc in their
>trademark Country/Western style: "If you don't use a Mac, your data
>will be lost, your pickup will die, your dog will get run over, your
>wife will leave you, and your house will burn down... But hey, you
>won't have to think!  We're the perfect system for ignorant hicks JUST
>LIKE YOU!" 

Boy we are just so freaking mature aren't we?

>   If you bothered to read the documentation for the first (and
>obviously not the last) HFS bug introduced by *Apple* [their engineers
>were great, but they didn't walk on water enough], the bug is that the
>GS does a bad multiply to figure out the sector a block belongs to on
>disk, and thus blows over other files. That bug was, as described by
>the Apple engineers, is related STRICTLY to volume size, not where the
>drive was formatted. Or, are you going to take your Mac-worshipping to
>be more relevant to the situation at hand than the facts?

I read the info on that and installed the patch for the HFS FST. I'll not
dignify the crap you're spewing about computer worship with a response.

>   Fact: bugs in coding have nothing to do with where the heck the
>drive was formatted. You've gotten lucky with your data, and I'd
>probably attribute that to your not doing anything but collect IIs,
>rather than power users pushing the GS to (and over) the
>limits. Anyone here have a HFS volume formatted on a Mac get toasted
>to disprove Randy?

It would be useful to see other people's results. I guess the only use you
might see for this is to "disprove" me and boost your pathetic little ego.
If you read what I said, you'll see that I put the file system through some 
paces by copying all the files from my 70 mb HFS volume, over 700 files, to 
the 200 mb volume on my new hard disk. Afterwards, I put the drive on my 
Quadra and ran Norton on it. The worst problem it found was some bad modific-
ation dates on a handful of the files, and it fixed 'em. 

Unlike you, I have no vendetta against any company or person, and was only
stating my results and looking for a cause for my lack of problems with HFS
volumes. The fact that I formatted my disk on a Mac is one of the obvious
differences. I've only used Mac formatted HFS volumes on my IIgs and have 
never seen a problem with the unpatched FST, let alone the patched version.
Do YOU have an explanation for it?

Finally, I don't see what bearing my having a collection of old Apple stuff
has on file system performance. 
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com