Re: What kind of SCSI drives can be used on the GS

[khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn)]

In article <468.UUL1.3#25274@ace.com>, Luigi <luigi@ace.com> wrote:
>Gee, I'm glad someone understands me :) I wouldn't want to use HFS
>(That's MAC, right?) because then a lot of programs wouldn't recognize
>it-

To each his own :) I'm getting a 1 gig drive soon (I hope :) and most
of it will be HFS... I'll probably have 5 ProDOS partitions, and the
rest will be in 2 HFS partitions. I really don't use any ProDOS 8
programs anymore... just the program I work on for my job.

>    I wrote another reply to some one else saying this and some one else
>replied "There is a program in development for a P8 HFS reader" which is
>good, but the keywords there are "IN DEVELOPMENT" which means NOT YET.

P8 programs that read HFS disks have been around for years... before
the HFS FST existed, even. Take a look at A2FX and HFSLink. I believe
they both run on an enhanced 128K //e. Now if you mean some way to
have any old P8 program access a HFS disk, I haven't heard of anything
like that... it'd be neat though :)

>The main problem is: If you have two things on separate partitions that
>you want to use in synch, you run into problems because technically they
>are on _different_drives_! Now that's a pain...

Doesn't bother me much :) So keep them on the same partition
then... plenty of room to do that if you use HFS ;)

And as to HFS being slow (in the article you quoted), accessing an HFS
hard disk partition seems fine to me. Getting a directory catalog is a
bit slower than on a Prodos disk, but actual file I/O seems about the
same. Even HFS flopticals aren't too bad (I've got all of my
flopticals formatted as HFS). HFS floppies are pretty slow
though... lots of seeking around :)
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