Crutch
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I would like to create an MFS “partition” on an HFS hard disk so that I can run some old apps (early versions of 68K MDS, mainly) that would otherwise work on a my machine (a 128ke with a Gemini 030 upgrade) but don’t like HFS.
Ideally I would do this on a mountable disk image so I don’t have to reformat the HD.
So: does any one know of a utility that can create a large-ish (a few MB) MFS disk image? Disk Copy 6 doesn’t seem to allow for the creation of MFS images.
A wonderful article by Mike Schuster in the April 1986 issue of MacTutor (“Nested Volume Manager DA”) explains how to do this by writing a disk driver complete with partial source code (the full code is on “MacTutor disk #7” somewhere ... by the way, did the MacTutor code disks survive online somewhere?) but having to build a disk driver to do this feels like overkill, I would definitely bet someone made a free or commercial utility at some point for exactly this purpose. The “Drawers” utility for HyperDrive would serve the purpose if it works on a non-HyperDrive HD ... I haven’t actually tried that yet but I’m not optimistic.
Ideally I would do this on a mountable disk image so I don’t have to reformat the HD.
So: does any one know of a utility that can create a large-ish (a few MB) MFS disk image? Disk Copy 6 doesn’t seem to allow for the creation of MFS images.
A wonderful article by Mike Schuster in the April 1986 issue of MacTutor (“Nested Volume Manager DA”) explains how to do this by writing a disk driver complete with partial source code (the full code is on “MacTutor disk #7” somewhere ... by the way, did the MacTutor code disks survive online somewhere?) but having to build a disk driver to do this feels like overkill, I would definitely bet someone made a free or commercial utility at some point for exactly this purpose. The “Drawers” utility for HyperDrive would serve the purpose if it works on a non-HyperDrive HD ... I haven’t actually tried that yet but I’m not optimistic.