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

In article <48ip8p$o83@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
> In article <48eip9$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.
> >
> >	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?

Brutal Deluxe probably has.

> Which books (or online sources) have full info on the disk
> format?

"Inside Macintosh: Files" has full details on the HFS disk-based
structures, and from looking at one of my hard drive partitions, it
seems to match.  There is an incomplete description in the older
series (Inside Mac Volume 4).

The big pieces of missing information are how an FST interacts with
GS/OS, and the organisation of the FST code (e.g. does it have large
tables at the beginning, like a driver?)  Apple never released any
documentation on this.
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David Empson
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