pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (10/31/90)
In article <2108.272d4ef9@waikato.ac.nz>, phil@waikato.ac.nz writes: > In article <1091@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) > writes: >> The Achilles Heel seems to be the following: to put it rather bluntly, >> if something spits on the header of a soft partition file, it's f*cked. >> Each soft partition is held as a single contiguous file on the main >> (physical) volume. These comments just remind me even more why I think soft (or file level) partitioning is evil. You just can't trust the entire contents of your hard drive to a single file like. True SCSI partitioning from the formatting software is the only way to go. I did a presentation on the differences between SUM II, MacTools Deluxe, and Norton for a users' group meeting (I didn't get 911 Utilties in time from Microcom) and used a HyperCard stack for the presentation. I'll upload it, though there's no telling how long it will take to get through the backlog. Overall, Norton was the smoothest and best of the programs, but MacTools had a better set of included utilities and was almost as good otherwise. SUM II is old and has a mediocre interface. -- Adam C. Engst pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu --------------------------------------------------------------- Editor of TidBITS, the weekly electronic Macintosh news journal