werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (06/07/88)
/---------------------------------------------------------------------\ < NOTE: follow-ups have been redirected to comp.sys.mac.programmer ONLY > \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ several recently reported problems with large hard disks seem to have been related/caused by the limitation of the Desktop file only being able to handle 65535 resources (or something like that), resulting in a rather dead disk the moment you get over that limit .... one which neither First Aid or DiskExpress is able to repair (apparently). given the pain involved dealing with that problem, would it be possible to "anticipate" this condition with a little hack (INIT, CDEV, whatever) which would check/count the resources and warn when a certain number is reached, recommending remedial action?! another alternative might be a patch into the OS-code creating the new resources, recognizing the problem and reporting/fixing it .... but that sounds harder. this is really something someone at Apple may have created a hack for already (a long time ago) - if not, someone should consider that ... ...or is it all fixed in 6.0? Cheers, ---Werner Prefered Address: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu werner%rascal.ics.utexas.edu@cs.utexas.edu