SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU (05/12/91)
Ok guys, here's a tough question. If and when other FST's come out for the IIgs, would it be possible to say format a HFS partition for my GS with a hypothetical HFS FST and then take the hard drive down to a mac, connect it up to the SCSI bus, and then be able to mount the partition? Or how about an MSDOS partition with another hypotetical MSDOS FST and then connect the hard drive to a NeXT that also has a MSDOS FST and be able to mount that volume? This would be really useful in being able to share data among different platforms, and I really am not sure how partitions in situations like this. Also, once again, I am looking for some comments about which SCSI card to buy. I'm leaning towards getting the RAMFast card, but am unsure about commiting myself to it, as the Apple High Speed SCSI card supposidly has better comaptibily among SCSI devices. Also would the use of storage devices such as the SYQuest with cartridges be affect by the different cards? Again, send me e-mail about your comments about the cards, and thanks to everyone who has answered it so far! Thanks! - Hal | Hal Bouma | Send mail to: SHBoum@Macalstr.edu | Macalester College | and SHBoum@Macalstr.Bitnet | Coming this fall for the //GS: NBA! | GEnie : H.BOUMA
q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) (05/12/91)
In article <7899EDA11ABF2128B3@MACALSTR.EDU>, SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU writes: > > Ok guys, here's a tough question. If and when other FST's come > out for the IIgs, would it be possible to say format a HFS partition > for my GS with a hypothetical HFS FST and then take the hard drive down > to a mac, connect it up to the SCSI bus, and then be able to mount the > partition? Or how about an MSDOS partition with another hypotetical MSDOS > FST and then connect the hard drive to a NeXT that also has a MSDOS > FST and be able to mount that volume? This would be really useful in being > able to share data among different platforms, and I really am not sure > how partitions in situations like this. Well, I *ASSUME* this would work but I really don't *KNOW*. Since DEVELOP Cd's have both a ProDOS & HFS partition and the ProDOS partition can be read fine on an Apple II, I don't see any reason why a hard drive formatted with one of each would be any different. SCSI is SCSI is SCSI so that shouldn't be much problem either. Maybe the Interleave would slow down/speed up the drive but I don't think there would be any other side effects. -- Joel Sumner GENIE:JOEL.SUMNER This .sig may not be used q4kx@cornella.ccs.cornell.edu q4kx@cornella for public viewing or q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu q4kx@crnlvax5 rebroadcast without the .................................................... express written consent The impedance of absolutely nothing is 377 ohms. of major league baseball.