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MFS (Macintosh FIle System) and DART Disk Images...
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Mar 3, 2003, 08:43 PM
 
I've not found much information on mounting and utilizing DART images and MFS volumes under Mac OS X. I know that both HFS and HFS+ are slowly going by the wayside, but I like to play with my classic Mac stuff too.

Are there tools to work with ancient Mac images and filesystems under OS X? Maybe something that can be bast@rdized from A/UX, MkLinux, or something else of the old and mostly forgotten era. Thanks!
     
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Mar 3, 2003, 09:03 PM
 
I am confused. Mac OS X uses HFS+ as the default FS but you can elect to use UFS instead.
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Mar 3, 2003, 09:27 PM
 
Originally posted by bighead:
I've not found much information on mounting and utilizing DART images and MFS volumes under Mac OS X. I know that both HFS and HFS+ are slowly going by the wayside, but I like to play with my classic Mac stuff too.

Are there tools to work with ancient Mac images and filesystems under OS X? Maybe something that can be bast@rdized from A/UX, MkLinux, or something else of the old and mostly forgotten era. Thanks!
WOW... DART, I haven't heard of that since 1993/1994 ???

Did those even work under OS 9?

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Mar 3, 2003, 09:31 PM
 
Not for OS X, but this could be something that you'd find useful if you haven't seen it already:

http://www.jagshouse.com/software/DART1.5.3.sit.hqx

MFS? Wasn't that for Mac System 1 and 2?
     
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Mar 4, 2003, 02:26 AM
 
MFS isn't supported on Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 or really anything since 7.1 IIRC.

The only way I know of that you're going to be able to read an MFS disk would be to get vMac, load the disk images into it, copy them to an HFS disk image in vMac, and open the HFS disk image in OS X.

Other than that, you're stuck, AFAIK.

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