IIRC, 8.0 supported neither Slaves nor HFS+, 8.1 supported Slaves (but only if one downloaded Drive Setup 1.6.4, which was NOT included with 8.1) but not HFS+, and 8.5 supported both.
What are "slaves"?
Anyway, 8.5.1 came with everything you need for Slaves and HFS+, and with 8.6 everything finally worked pretty well.
190 stops at OS8.1; nothing newer...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30345
Mac OS Extended Format
Mac OS 8.1 now supports a new volume format called Mac OS Extended format. The hard disk format supported by Mac OS version 8.0 and earlier is Mac OS Standard format. Mac OS Extended format optimizes the storage capacity of large hard disks by decreasing the minimum size of a single file. As an example, on a 4 GB hard drive a file containing only 4K of information requires 64K of space in Mac OS Standard format, whereas with the Mac OS Extended format, it will require the actual 4K on the 4 GB hard disk.
Existing hard disks formatted with Mac OS Standard format will continue to function and be supported by Mac OS 8.1. To determine whether a disk was initialized with Mac OS Standard format or Mac OS Extended format, select the disk, and choose "Get Info" from the File menu.
If you want to use Mac OS Extended format on one or more of your hard disks, please refer to the About Mac OS Extended Format document. For additional help in creating and using a Mac OS Extended format volume as a start up volume, please go to:
<http://www.apple.com/support>.
And I found the gotcha notice:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30344
680x0 Specific Issues
680x0 processor computers cannot use a hard disk initialized with Mac OS Extended format as the start up disk, but the Mac OS Extended format can be used on additional disks connected to a 680x0 computer running Mac OS 8.1 or later. In addition, you can not select a hard disk initialized with Mac OS Extended format in the Virtual Memory section of the Memory control panel.
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