Re: Converting 2mg's back to real hardware?

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <20041111005124.21925.00000466@mb-m06.aol.com>,
 mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

> Sean Fahey wrote:
> 
> >"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message
> >news:N2ekd.4385$_3.52928@typhoon.sonic.net...
> >
> >> There's a fix for the HFS FST floating around.
> >
> >Sorry Andy, I thought the concensus was that the patched version was an
> >improvement but still had issues.
> 
> I'd like to know the answer, myself.
> 
> My understanding was that the patched FST was solid, but that
> the inevitable cumulative insults to the file system resulting from
> power glitches, etc., could not be repaired on the IIgs.
> 
> Can a IIgs HFS disk be taken to a Mac and "fixed"?  Or must
> one rely upon backups and the occasional "copy all files" to
> a fresh HFS partition?

At one point, when I upgraded the HD on my GS from a 100MB to a 120MB 
drive, I made certain that I formatted it with the Adv.Disk.Util with 
the Mac Generic SCSI driver in the driver folder.  This allowed me to 
hook up the drive (2 30MB ProDOS partitions, rest HFS) to the Mac I was 
using at the time (Quadra 650) when I needed to.  (I was using the 
patched HFS.FST on my GS.)  I pretty much left it alone and just used 
both machines, but when I got to the point where the only thing I was 
doing with my GS was playing a game or two, (and had upgraded the Mac to 
a PPC able to run Bernie,) I took down the GS, but first hooked up the 
GS to my Mac so I could make disk images of all three partitions.  In 
about 2 years of time, I ended up with no errors on the HFS partition 
according to Apple's testing app and Norton 3.5.

So, I'd have to say in my opinion, that if you're running a GS with an 
HFS partition(s), it should be pretty solid...if you're running it on a 
battery backup so there's never a problem during writes.  (I never used 
a battery backup, but the power generally seems to be pretty solid where 
I live.  I was very likely lucky...)

But, if formatted correctly, Macs that can be used to test HFS 
partitions can be found fairly cheap.  And they can make a pretty good 
peripheral for the GS.

Greg B.

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