Re: Goodbye HFS.FST (crashed HD again)

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

In article <50sp3a$29q@zap.io.org>, Myles Fudge <crownmi@zap.io.org> wrote:
>I am at my wits end with the 'Generic FST error' and a host of other 
>mindless I/O errors while using my HFS partitions on my GS.  Ugh.  I 
>resign the usefulness of that damned FST.  I have a 1080mb SCSI-2 HD
>on my 1mb RamFAST 3.01F Rev D card and my HFS volumes always get 
>corrupted within a couple months.  I have finally decided to stay with
>a much smaller HD and my zip drive.  Here goes one nice HD (too bad I
>don't have a Mac or PC w/SCSI).  To be continued in csa2m....   ;)

My first question is what in the crap can you do with a 1 gig hard disk on a
IIgs? I'm about to move my IIgs from a 105 to a 230 only because I have an
Apple ROM equipped Quantum handy now, so I can use HD SC Setup to format it
and get the ProDOS volume to show up on my Mac. It ain't because the 105 is 
full. Heck, the 230 wasn't anywhere near full in my Mac but I put in a 540
to be able to capture more video to disk with my digitizer.
I'm also curious as to how people have trouble with HFS volumes. I put my
IIgs hard disk on my Mac to run Norton on the HFS volume every so often so
I can optimize it and look for problems and I've never seen any.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado