Re: Partition big drives on a GS ?

["Michael Heintz" <mheintz@nusoftsolutions.com>]

I'll have to see if I can dig out my RamFast manual.  I vaguely remember
reading something about an 8 device maximum for SCSI drives.  Each partition
is mapped to a slot/port so that may have something to do with it.  I
remember the RamFast let you juggle which partition showed up at which port
so you could boot different partitions (and hide others) if you wanted to.
But my memory is getting a little fuzzy at this point.

Mike

Mark Cummings <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> I just bought a 500M & 1.2G Quantum SCSI drive for my GS. Enough room to
> swing a cat. Settle down Q.C. :)
> Played with the 500M drive on the Mac first using Apple HDSC and no
> problems. Loaded System 7.6.1 off CD and booted it up fine. Then tried the
> 1.2G...
> Set it up in an external SCSI case. Tried every formating program I could
> lay my computers on.
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> 1. Mac using Apple HDSC - Successfully formatted a whole 1.2G Mac volume,
> didn't bother loading any O/S as it looked like a sure thing. Then tried
to
> do mixed Prodos/HFS vols. By about the 3rd option I tried, HDSC messed up
> the partition map, and wouldn't fix it. I couldn't even rename the volume,
> but that turned out to be "sharing..." setup. turned off sharing, but HDSC
> refused to allow me to reconfigure the drive. Tried all options.
>
> 2. Mac - Drive setup, won't run on my non Power-PC, 68K Mac.
>
> 3. Mac - Disk Utils, said the partition map was faulty (I think), or at
> least that the drive was.
>
> 4. IIGS - Chinook Utils, can only set 7 partitions of 32MB, and reads the
> info all wrong off the drive. Lots of "?" marks.
>
> 5. IIGS - AHS SCSI Utils (HDSC), can only set 4 partitions of 32MB, so I
> didn't bother.
>
> 6. IIGS - ADU wouldn't run off the floppy because I didn't have SCSI
driver
> installed. Installed that, then proceeded to partition the drive, got to
> number 8 and the "NEW" drive button was greyed out. So I stopped at 8, I
> should have been able to go to 32 x 32MB for this beast, and the manual
says
> so for >1GB drives. Anyway settled for 8 and made the last one 1GB, then
it
> formattted all as ProDOS because HFS.FST wasn't installed on the boot
> floppy.
> When the desktop came up, the 1G partition was only 32M. I expected that
> from ProDOS, couldn't reformat as HFS yet.
> Tried to add HFS.FST to the SCSI boot floppy, not enough room.
> Tried to make a brand spanker using the /Install using 800K floppy option
> with bare minumum SCSI + HFS.FST. Not enough room. Made the bare minimum
> 800K no SCSI or HFS.FST. deleted Basic.System & 5.25 driver. Tried to add
> SCSI & HFS.FST, still not enough room. Made a copy of the /system disk and
> deleted 5.25 driver and Basic.System & added SCSI & HFS.FST to that.
Finally
> I have a SCSI/HFS boot floppy. Hoo bloody ray!!! None of this is explained
> in the System 6 Manual, you have to "jump through the hoops" to fix it
> yourself.
> Booted the SCSI/HFS floppy. ran ADU off the other drive on /SystemTools1.
> tried to reconfigure the partitions, but still only 8 allowed. Why ???. At
> least I was able to make the big one a HFS partition this time.
>
> Ran the /setup on the 1st partition with all the bells and whistles
> installed. Rebooted and tadaaa... it works.
>
> So I am left wondering how on earth have others done this before, and why
> can't I have more than 8 partitions ?
> My 500M Focus was quite happy with 17 partition, so why can't I get >8
with
> this 1.2G drive. Is it the size of the partition table or something ?
> Also why did the Mac spit the dummy with the drive, and will I ever be
able
> to put it back there ?
> You can understand why I'm not in a hurry to do that, as it took me sooooo
> long to get it up on the GS.
>
> Mark
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