On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > i remember years back when apple introduced the first IDE powermacs, > the 5400 (iirc) came with a really bizarre hard disk setup: it had no > partition table. yes thats right no partition table at all. just one > big ol HFS filesystem stuck on the raw disk. no drivers, no partition > table nothing.
I can confirm this: my older hard drive (the one that came with the powerbook) has only one big hfs... > they did not do this for very long because they discovered that the > IDE driver burned into the ROM of these machines was very buggy, and > now they had no way to install a new driver without repartitioning the > disk. (big brain fart on the part of some apple engineer) i think > they eventually came out with some hack to try and resize the HFS > filesystem and reclaim just enough space to install a partition table > and new driver iirc. > > so yes i bet this trick will only work on IDE powermacs, i think they > were the only ones to have a disk driver burned into the ROM. Ah, so I'm very very very lucky then... ;) Patrix.
