Re: How is a FOCUS drive configured by default?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Blake Patterson writes ...
> 
> 
>    I've got an incoming ~500MB Focus drive (without the AppleWorks GS
> option) and was just wondering how it's likely to be configured.  It
> seems that there are potentially something like 15 or 16 32MB ProDOS
> volumes.  Are they all formatted and setup like that, or is there just
> one or two and you format the rest?
> 
>    They list like 4 titles that are on the drive other than GS/OS 6.0.1 --
> is this the extent of what usually comes preloaded, or are there lots of
> MB's of stuff?
> 
 ....

     Yeah, having a 500MB Focus is a rough problem. So many partitions to worry
about and all ...

     My guess is that you will get something like 6-8 32MB ProDOS partitions
with the rest in a single hfs partition.

     I do not know if the Focus CDEV shipped with drives has been fixed yet--
the version that came with ours (on diskette) had an error that results in most
Time Out values being just half the value shown. (Time Out is the time in
minutes that the Focus will be spinning and be 'awake' when there is no
activity.)  For out 80MB Focus, the "Never" setting-- always spinning-- works
fine.



Rubywand