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From: q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HD Partitions and other trivial matters...
Message-ID: <1991May12.112758.4698@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 15:27:58 GMT
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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.

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