Re: Help with HD for Apple //e

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

Bryan,

	 When hard drives first came out for Apple IIs, there was at least one company
that wouldn't sell Apple II owners a large hard drive because they couldn't
use/format it.  //e users are still limited to 32Megs per volume and a total of
14 volumes on line at once.  In regard to SCSI drives, I have a 160Meg External
SCSI partitioned into 4 32Meg partitions (128Megs total).  I think that you
could get around the 4 partition limit if you used a RAMFAST card, but I
haven't tried it yet.  

	I do like the FOCUS IDE hard drives because they're fast and easy to move
around.  What are you using for a program launcher?  That's been the real
limiting factor on my IIe.  My favorite GUI desktop will only recognize 10
volumes, so I have 2 5.25" drives, one 3.5 and seven partitions on the FOCUS.

	By the way, the external hard drives are really nice in the classroom because
they don't care if the students turn the computers off and on too quickly
(separate power supply), whereas a FOCUS internal hard drive wouldn't have a
chance to properly park the head and problems would develop quickly.

Jay Edwards


=-->  2) I have a Apple SCSI controller for my //e, what kind of HD can I
attach
to that? I seem to recal a 20MB limit on HD allocation, but can I say attach a
100MB HD, and only use 20MB of it? And how would I go about formating
such a beast?

Bryan
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