kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) (06/11/91)
Warning: I'm going to start talking through my hat here. I want to partition my hard drive. It's a standard Mac drive. I can partition it with the standard Mac formatter, but it refuses to let me designate more than one partition as a Mac partition; the rest have to be AUX or something. Anybody know any applicable hacks? I want to do this to run two bootable systems (yes, one 6.x and one 7.0); I have some "soft partitioning" software, but it just uses an INIT to mount a reserved area as an other pseudo-drive. You gotta already be booting to even mount the pseudo-drive; so much for that idea. Is SCSI partitioning really "hard" partitioning? How does it work? Oh, and am I forgetting something important? -- /kenw Ken Wallewein A L B E R T A kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca R E S E A R C H (403)297-2660 C O U N C I L
nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (06/11/91)
In article <KENW.91Jun10212746@skyler.arc.ab.ca>, kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) writes: > Anybody know any applicable hacks? Hacks, no, but Silverlining 5.28 will do what you want, and tons more. I have 6.0.7 and 7.0 together on my drive. > Is SCSI partitioning really "hard" partitioning? I believe "hard" means at the SCSI level, "soft" means pseudo-partitions mapped to files. Oh, if the soft partitioning software you speak of is SUM Partition, it doesn't work properly under 7.0 anyway. Soft partitions have their uses (well, one) but hard partitioning is so much cleaner and avoids a lot of drawbacks associated with soft partitioning. > How does it work? Ah, now that I don't know. Serious woojy-woojy magic, I expect. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ <-- WEST VIEWING ROOM EAST VIEWING ROOM -->
fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming) (06/12/91)
You need partitioning software such as LaCie's SilverLining, which will create true 'hard' SCSI partitions. I think CMS sells a similar utility. Things like SUM Partition just don't cut it (as you described). +--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Stephen Fleming | In ten years, computers will just be | | fleming@cup.portal.com | bumps in cables. --Gordon Bell | | CI$: 76354,3176 +-------------------------------------------| | BIX: srfleming | My employers may disagree vehemently. | +--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+