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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Password
Message-ID: <3392@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 88 01:51:59 GMT
References: <5488@eecae.UUCP> <1101@ll1a.UUCP> <14794@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
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In article <14794@think.UUCP> ephraim@godot.think.com.UUCP (ephraim vishniac) writes:
>In article <1101@ll1a.UUCP> markn@ll1a.UUCP (Mark Nettleingham) writes:
>>I use a program called "Hard Disk" Partition I can't remember who
>>makes it right now.
>
>Hard Disk Partition comes from FWB Software, somewhere out there in
>California.  The version I saw about a year ago was not impressive.
>Judging from Mark's review, it's been improved a lot.
>

Well, I bought Hard Disk Partition this past summer, and now I no longer use
it.  Why?  Well, it didn't behave exactly as I thought it would, and on top
of that, I found it to be somewhat unstable.  For example, you can create
partitions which automount on boot, and for this to happen you have to have
a INIT in your system folder.

It turns out that this INIT breaks pretty easily.  When I first got HD
Partition, this init worked, but at one time I reinitialized and restored my
Dataframe 20 and bingo, the Mac locked up on booting.  Calls to FWB Software
lead to them saying that it wasn't their problem, but one with SuperMac's
hard disk drivers.  SuperMac said that their drivers works fine, so after
all the dust settled, the problem remained unresolved.  Its my opinion at
this point, that the fault lies with the HD Partition's Automount INIT.

I guess if you want partitions to work correctly, you'll have to convince
the people who wrote your HD's SCSI driver to support that feature on the
SCSI driver level.  Alot of things can break if try to partition above that
level.

Christopher Chow
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