hunt@rsts32.dec.com (Phil Hunt) (01/19/88)
>Well, I bought Hard Disk Partition this past summer, and now I no longer use >it. Why? Well, it didn't behave exactly as I thought it would, and on top >of that, I found it to be somewhat unstable. For example, you can create >partitions which automount on boot, and for this to happen you have to have >a INIT in your system folder. > >It turns out that this INIT breaks pretty easily. When I first got HD >Partition, this init worked, but at one time I reinitialized and restored my >Dataframe 20 and bingo, the Mac locked up on booting. Calls to FWB Software >lead to them saying that it wasn't their problem, but one with SuperMac's >hard disk drivers. SuperMac said that their drivers works fine, so after >all the dust settled, the problem remained unresolved. Its my opinion at >this point, that the fault lies with the HD Partition's Automount INIT. > >I guess if you want partitions to work correctly, you'll have to convince >the people who wrote your HD's SCSI driver to support that feature on the >SCSI driver level. Alot of things can break if try to partition above that >level. This is really a problem with HD Partition. Automount has not worked for me will Automount subvolumes since I got the pgm in 3/87!!! Many calls to them (FWB S/w) say they have never heard of the problem!!! Don't they think we all communicate our gripes? What an FWB lie!!! I have not gotten the Automount to work on a Jasmine 80, Apple 40 or PCPC 144 meg internal. On Mac+, Mac SE or Mac II. It used to just not mount the partitions, now it crashes (ID=10) in the INIT. I love HD partition (I really do). I use it all the time. Just don't expect the automount stuff to work. PS, Another HD Partition bug, Click the disk subvolume of a partition and do a 'Get info' Pretzel/I. The where colume says sometihng like: 'ionHD partiti' for the location of the volume. The string is wrong!! Phil Hunt