Re: Zip drive, Ramfast, and Finder

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4s6jnf$9ov@netaxs.com>, User Support <rak@netaxs.com> wrote:
>Had a curious problem yesterday.  Decided it was about time I actually put 
>some files on my Zip drive, so I installed Hypercard on a Zip volume using 
>the Finder to move files.  Alas, when I was finished, Hypercard would not 
>boot, giving me a $110A error.  Did a file comparison between the original 
>floppy and the copy on the Zip disk, and they were NOT identical.  Booted 
>Hypercard from the floppy, and tried to locate the home stack on the Zip.  
>Also negative.  

   You using a 100MB HFS partition? If so, that's in the size that can
be bitten by the first discovered HFS bug and fixed by the patcher
program. [ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu, pub/nathan if you don't have it yet]
Volumes <96MB weren't affected by _that_ bug.

   [I'm betting that there are more, due to (1) Murphy's Law of
programming (*), (2) I've had corrupted HFS volumes that were under
96MB. Now all I need is a little time to hunt this and many other
bugs down]

Nathan Mates

(*) There is always one more bug.



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