Re: [IIgs] Buying a Hard Drive for my old IIgs

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

This is FAQ material!
-Paul

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> "Dominic Wu" <dwu@swales.com> wrote:
>
> >How do you get an HFS partition going?  I hooked up a 1GB to my GS and it
> >would only mount a maximum of 4 32MB partitions using System 6.  So
> >realitically, all I need is an 80MB HDD since I figured the rest was
wasted.
> >Please do enlighten me on this topic.
>
> You have to partition the drive with at least one ProDOS partition
> as the first one and the HFS partitions come later.
>
> Once this happens, install GS/OS System 6 with the HFS FST
> option (utilizing the Advanced installation rather than the Easy
> Install option).  Upon rebooting to your newly installed System 6
> desktop, Finder will complain about unformatted partitions.
> Simply format the 32MB ones ProDOS and the >32MB ones as
> HFS.  Once you install System 6 with the HFS FST option,
> your IIGS will give you the option of formatting HFS on any
> drive.  You can even format and use HFS floppies which is
> quite useful for communicating with Macs as you can be sure
> that any IIGS software that recognizes HFS will work fine with
> forked files.