Hello Listers,
The HFS+ tech. notes say that the 'Volume attributes' field in the volume header
has to have Bit 8 set to 1 if the volume was correctly flushed when it was
mounted or ejected the last time. It also mentions that if this is not done it
could take an annoyingly long time for the ROM-based consistency check (on Mac
OS 7.6 and higher) for boot volumes.
1) My volume is not a boot volume.
2) I have cleared this bit - set it to
0
3) Inspite of 1) and 2) a smaller HFS+ volume with
only one index node = root gets mounted pretty fast.
4) A larger HFS+ volume (2 levels of index nodes)
doesn't get mounted at all... my iMac with MacOS 9 just hangs altogether..... I
have to remove my CD by force and restart.
I assumed this couldn't be an error in the catalog
but has something to do with the Volume Header since I would have expected to
see an error dialog instead. Besides this seems to be HFS+ specific since I
never encountered this kind of problem with HFS.
Does anyone know what this could be due to ? Any
suggestions/comments would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Nandini Hengen