Re: Focus 500?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

cornelio@san.rr.com (L. Cornelio) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>You'd think they would makes some HFS partitions!
>>
>>I have a 1GB SCSI drive and only have a few partitions
>>thanks to HFS.
>
>That is what I was thinking -- who needs ALL those icons? But
>then I would have to reformat the whole drive to do that, right?

Basically, yes.  You'd have to run the FocusFormatter and
repartition the drive.  For example, you might reduce the
17 partitions into 4 by deleting 13 of them.  You'd keep the
first 4 partitions and delete the ones behind those.  Then
you might enlarge the last two of the four remaining
partitions to fill the space.

You'd end up with two small 32MB partitions and two
large partitions of 228MB each.  When you go back to the
Finder, simply format the first two partitions ProDOS and
the last two partitions (the large ones) HFS.  Then you'd
install System 6.0.1 (plus the Focus driver) back onto the
first ProDOS partitions.

Reboot the IIGS.  Congratulations, your new 500MB
Focus is ready!

On my 1GB SCSI drive, I use the large HFS partitions
for GS specific stuff (when one hypermedia stack
sometimes takes more than 1MB, HFS is very very
helpful).  The ProDOS partitions are saved for the OS
and OS enhancements and for 8-bit ProDOS 8
programs and data files.