Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!umich!sharkey!cfctech!ttardis!tes9737
From: tes9737@ttardis.UUCP (Tom Stechow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS Backup/Partition Problem
Keywords: backup
Message-ID: <2513@ttardis.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 15:43:38 GMT
Organization: TES Systems
Lines: 39

In article <496d2699.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, dibello@apollo.HP.COM (Phil Dibello) writes:
>Path: cfctech!sharkey!umich!yale!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!apollo!apollo.hp.com!dibello
>From: dibello@apollo.HP.COM (Phil Dibello)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
>Subject: Apple IIGS Backup/Partition Problem
>Keywords: Apple IIgs, backup, partition, problem
>Message-ID: <496d2699.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
>Date: 26 Mar 90 15:30:00 GMT
>Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM
>Reply-To: dibello@apollo.HP.COM (Phil Dibello)
>Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA
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>
>Hi,
>    I am submitting this for a friend of mine, so bear with me if I get
>some of the details wrong.  Here goes...
>
>    He has an apple IIgs, with a 45mB CMS drive(via a SCSI port).  He
>partitioned 
>the drive into 20 and 25mB partitions using the partitioner on the disk
>"apple IIgs system utilities, v5.0, Advanced disk utilities".
>
>    He can see and use both partitions, and everything works fine until
>he tries
>to backup the drive.  He is using the backup program from the "Apple SCSI Card
>Utilities.  Using the same utilities, he seems to be able to use the "test" 
>program, which sees both partitions, but can't use the "partition"
>program because it doen't handle drives > 40mB.
>
>    When he attempts a backup, he gets the error "Unsupported storage device",
>after the hard disk light, then the floppy light and then the hard disk light 
>flashes again. (It says that it has successfully created a table-of-contents.)
>
>    Thanks in advance !!
>
>
>                                                    Phil DiBello
>                                                      Hewlett-Packard, 
>                                                      Chelmsford