Re: How is a FOCUS drive configured by default?

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

	I'll have to see when it comes.  Every system I've owned since my first
very powerful (relatively) x86 system configured to run NeXTSTEP, I've
left on 24/7 -- it's easier on the whole system if everything stays on. 
Actually -- it's easier on the drives from what I've heard over and over
if they stay spinning all the time -- so I've never used sleep.  I may
treat the GS this way, after my System Saver arrives.  We'll see.

	Can't wait for that thing.



bp

Rubywand wrote:
> 
> 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

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