Re: RamFAST and HFS?

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

jasonp@norton.sps.mot.com (Jason Perez) writes:

>  I have a RamFAST Rev. D ROM v2.0.1e on my ROM 1 GS.  I've only had one 
>external drive connected to it, but recenly I've obtained an external 
>160Mb drive.  I daisy chained it to the first drive and booted up.  In the
>RamFAST Utility program under the Edit menu the new drive shows up.  However 
>it thinks the drive is empty.  The drive came from a Mac and is formatted 
>with HFS, 1 partition, and has about 145Mb of data on it. 
>  Do I need a newer version of the ROM to access HFS volumes greater than 
>32Mb (it looks like that's the max partition size I can make with 2.0.1e)?
>With a new ROM, can I mount the drive w/out formatting it first?

  Upgrade your ROM.  Yes, you should be able to mount the drive
w/o reformatting with a new ROM - but I'd break that up into some ProDOS
partitions anyway.

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