Re: You CAN copy Mac disks on a IIgs

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> willi@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche) wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> >    To make a long story short, you can copy Mac disks with a IIgs and
> >a couple of 3.5 inch Apple drives.  HFS disks can be copied with any
> >volume copy utility.
>
> Congratulations.  If you install GS/OS System 6.0 or
> System 6.0.1 and the HFS FST, you can read, write,
> and format HFS disks on the IIGS too.
>
> In other words, not only can you COPY the volume,
> you can read, write, copy, delete, create, save,
> open FILES from an HFS volume on the IIGS.
>
> You can also format hard drive volumes larger than
> 32MB using HFS on the IIGS.
>
> HFS is one of the two fully supported file systems
> on the IIGS.  ISO9660 (a CD file system) and the
> MS-DOS file system are read-only supported.

MS-DOS is fully read/write also with Peter Watson's
MSDOS Utilities or MUG! and a superdrive package.
I do it all the time, or should I say did, until I got the
servers running on the Mac and PC. Now I simply pull
the files straight from the servers with no more need for
first copying to disk and reading/writing them.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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