Re: IIGS Partitions

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:13:21 GMT, "Dana Eckel" <deckel@info-link.net>
> wrote:
>
> >How large of a partition can the GSOS 6.01 see at one time?
>
> The largest partition that GS/OS is capable of handling is 4 GB.
>
> However, I don't think there is any FSTs (File System Translators)
> available for GS/OS that go this high.
>
> The DOS 3.3 FST, which is read only, should have a max partition size
> of 400 KB but is most likely limited to 140 KB as that is the standard
> 5.25" floppy disk size.
>
> The Pascal FST, which is read only, should have a max partition size
> of 32 MB.
>
> The MS-DOS FST, which is read only, I'm not sure what the max
> partition size is but I would think it is either 256 MB or 2 GB.

Just a wild guess Jeff, but until the Compaq 3.31 version of MS-DOS, it
was limited to 32 mg just like ProDOS, so I would assume that that would
be the limit of the FST.

Roy