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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectre and hard disks
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.130839.17906@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 11 Dec 90 13:08:39 GMT
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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Can someone clarify this?  I can't figure out what the problem is:

In article <1990Dec9.091311.16932@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno) writes:
>In article <39964@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> emerson@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU
(Emerson Mei) writes:
> >still can't get a hard drive partitioned so that it will 
> >work on spectre and the Mac. I now realize that it must be done using a MFS
> >formatted drive and there can be no atari data on the drive.  Still Spectre
> >will not format MFS except on partitions <4.5 megs. and these partitions are
> >not recoginzed by a macintosh. I think it may be the paritioning software. I
> >use ICD's recent version. Has anyone out there done this and could they
> >Pleeeze give me some tips. 
> >
> > Please reply to emerson@stat.berkeley.edu
>
>You have to use either the "Supra Formatter" (as Dave Small points out in one
>of the Spectre newsletters) or the "CMS Formatter", which is what I used. You
>also MUST format on the Mac, since no mac SCSI software works with Spectre, 
>it can't seem to see any SCSI devices.  I used the CMS software to format a
>SyQuest cartridge for Mac & Spectre usage.  As you said, you can't have an
>Atari partition, although the Mac OS does allow for multiple partitions on
>a drive.  Hopefully, Spectre 3.0 will support a wider range of Mac formatted
>drives. I'd love to have a cartridge with an ST partition on it that 
>autoboots and still have a Mac readable partition.  Since formatting the 
>cartridge and putting a bunch of stuff on it, the volume crashed, although
>Spectre still displays it under the hard disk menu. Of course, I hadn't backed
>up anything on it yet (if I had, it wouldn't have crashed). I haven't had a 
>chance to try and restore the volume yet.

This sounds very knowledgable and I'm busily trying to figure it out.  I
have a Supra 80 with three Atari partitions and two Mac HFS partitions
which I formatted with GCR 2.65, following the manual instructions.
If I understand the above postings correctly, this is impossible.
What's going on?
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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