Subject: Re: hfsutils
To: None <ryan@gstis.net>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@mvista.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/05/1999 12:53:49
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 ryan@gstis.net wrote:

> 	Does hfsutils support HFS partitions on an IDE drive? I know that
> when I tried using the hfs package on ftp.macbsd.com it wouldn't even try
> to touch the IDE drive in my Q630....

hfsutils just deals with a disk as a file.  You could have a file on disk
with the structure of a disk and it would read it.  As such, the answer is
that if the kernel supports IDE without any major missing features (not
sure what ioctls are used), hfsutils should as well, otherwise, it won't.


David