Dusel, Peter W writes:
> >I'm cautiously hoping for EFI as the firmware.
>
> So, with EFI, what happens when I plug my external hard drive,
> your choice of interface, formatted with a PPC mac and full of data,
> into an inteltosh?
>
> Or, I move a drive from a PPC mac to an inteltosh?
>
> I see an opportunity for a less than ideal user experience.
The type of paritioning used by the bios/firmware/efi/what-have-you
only really matters for the boot disk. Once the kernel is in control,
it can recognize any parition that the kernel developers can code for.
I doubt anybody is planning to delete the ability to parse an
Apple OF partition table from the darwin/MacOSX kernel, so your
existing disks should work fine.
For example, this is how your current mac is able to read external usb
and firewire drives with dos FDISK style parition tables. And for a
non-MacOSX example, I share a large external firewire disk between an
x86 FreeBSD box and a Mac, and its paritioned with an Apple OF table.
My PC's bios knows nothing about OF, but FreeBSD is able to read the
disk just fine.
But.. this poses the question of geting your data off of the disk
under MacOSX.. I assume the Apple HFS code is endian safe?
Drew
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