Re: HFS question

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Dec 9, 1:22 am, mojoehand <jg...@zianet.com> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 10:15 pm, "a2retro" <a2re...@a2central.com.remove-11py-this>
> wrote:
> > mojoehand wrote:
> > > If GS/OS will read/write an HFS volume, is there any reason that I
> > > couldn't have one ProDOS boot partition and the rest of a disk as HFS
> > > for use by the GS? In other words, will ProDOS programs and data files
> > > run ok from an HFS partition, once I've booted from a ProDOS partion?
> > > This would solve the annoyance of having several 32MB partitions.
>
> > There is no HFS driver for ProDOS 8. So if you boot ProDOS 8 from that
> > partition, you will only see the 32MB partition. If you install and run
> > GS/OS on that ProDOS 8 partation then you will see both the ProDOS 8
> > partition and the HFS partition provided you install the HFS FST during
> > the GS/OS install.
>
> > If you boot back to ProDOS 8 application while in GS/OS then you will
> > not see the HFS partition.
>
> > At least that is the way I understand things to be.
>
> > Glenn
>
> So, running a ProDOS app from GS/OS won't work then?
Well, you can _launch_ a ProDOS 8 app from GS/OS, and it will run just
fine (after booting itself a little ProDOS 8 OS).  But it won't see
the HFS partition.