manis@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) (05/17/88)
Jeff Gortakowsky mentioned that he'd had trouble installing a hard disk
system under Magic Sac. So did I; I called Data Pacific, and they advised
me that you have to go through a longwinded process to install it. The
basic problem is that Apple's HD20 driver assumes there's a system on
a hard disk, if it's connected. Apple disks (and compatibles) all come
with a system folder; Atari drives don't (some trivial licencing problem
:-).
What you have to do is to create a tiny little partition (1MB or so) formatted
with the Mac (flat) file system. Copy your system to that (using a floppy
system disk with no HD20 driver on it). Then reboot with another disk *with*
HD20, copy that system to your real partition, and you're away. This is a
dumb way of doing it, but blame Apple, not David Small.
Vincent Manis | manis@cs.ubc.ca
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<<NOTE NEW ADDRESS>> | ubc-cs!manisdsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) (05/18/88)
(the discussion centers around Hard Disk 20 and the Magic Sac, and the "fun" of installing it.) Yes, this was probably the biggest tech support headache at dP for some time. We finally put the whole procedure in our newsletter, then uploaded it to various places online as well. Getting HFS to work with a hard disk is a multi step and not intuitive process -- as has been noted here. I should mention that I'm not with Data Pacific anymore, so my replies here are not official. (Dan Moore is gone as well, although I expect he'll be showing up more here on Usenet as a result of his jobchange.) -- Thanks, Dave Small Dave Small / assistant diaper changer / Small Children Maintenance, Inc. & formerly of dP.