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

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

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.

To be able to see HFS partitions, the IIgs system must have the HFS file
system translator installed (HFS.FST in */System/FSTs).  It isn't
normally there if you are booting from an 800K floppy, but is installed
as part of the default installed for a large volume (hard disk or high
density 3.5" floppy).

My 850 MB SCSI hard drive (on an Apple HS SCSI card) has ten 32 MB
ProDOS partitions, four 128 MB HFS partitions and one more small ProDOS
partition.  Works fine.

You might run into issues if the drive was partitioned on a Mac, because
the IIgs thinks the Mac's SCSI Manager 4.3 driver is a normal file
system, and it complains about an unreadable file system, asking you to
eject or initialize it.  (The other partitions will work fine.)

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz