Re: Slow ProDOS mounting (was Re: Patch for **MAJOR** HFS.FST Bug)

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4agarl$a4p@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
> 
> Hmmmm...The Macintoshes in question here (in my case) are Quadra 660AV's,
> running on an Ethernet network in a computer lab, equipped with the
> MacLink Plus translation package for MS-DOS.  MS-DOS disks mount up right
> away, and HFS disks mount quickly, though sometimes the system complains a
> bit about HFS disks created on the GS (I am thinking this might have
> something to do with the now-famous HFS FST bug).

Possibly.  The IIgs doesn't bother to set up some fields in the
directory header, which Norton Utilities complains about, for example.

In addition, the IIgs doesn't touch the Mac's Desktop files (Desktop,
Desktop DB and Desktop DF) which will usually be rebuilt automatically
when you insert the disk on a Mac.

> Only the ProDOS disks are intolerably slow, and they seem to crash
> ("Unable to read this disk.") more often than Mac-native disks.  It
> doesn't seem to matter whether the ProDOS disk was created on my IIgs
> at home, or on my IIgs at work. 

If the Mac disks are 1.44MB and the ProDOS disks are 800K, it could
just be that this particular machine has one of the newer type of 3.5"
drives which is not very happy with 800K disks.
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David Empson
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