Re: Sucess w/IOmega Drive on IIgs (w/some problems)

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <48eip9$j4j@urvile.msus.edu>,
Bill Scheffler <schefflr@news.msus.edu> wrote:
>Peter Handel (zelix@parka.winternet.com) wrote:
>: Just a word of caution- be REALLY careful when using the VERY buggy
>: HFS.FST.  It keeps trashing my 730MB HFS volume on my Gig drive.  You
>: may have better luck using a smaller partition, but still be sure to
>: turn off "saving finder.data" files in the finder- saving a lot of
>: very small files is very dangerous.  Good luck!

>	You'd think that someone at Apple would have the decency to fix 
>this.  This is a serious problem in the System Software, and even though 
>they aren't going to update it they could at least fix the HFS.FST.  

   I half feel like turning my debugging skills at this problem, and
am sorta in the research phase. Does anyone have a disassembly of the
HFS.FST? Which books (or online sources) have full info on the disk
format? Those of you smart enough to partition your drives on a mac
first, and run Norton or some other util on the drive, what does
Norton report as being the problem(s).

   No guarantees that I'll actually do anything, just interested in
collecting info.

Nathan Mates
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