Re: Partioning SCSI drives larger than 130 Megs?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> 
> >MJMahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The Chinook SCSI utilities will allow you to
> >> partition a disk into more than four partitions.
> >
> >The user interface and internal data structures are limited to nine or
> >possibly ten partitions.  If you partitioned the drive with Advanced
> >Disk Utility, you end up with four driver partitions on there, which
> >prevents CSU from displaying more than five or so real partitions.
> 
> I thought ADU does not install a driver partition unless the
> drive is an Apple brand drive or you extracted the Mac
> driver using GenEx and put it in the GS drivers folder?

I think it puts the partitions there (all four of them) even if it
cannot install a driver, so there is room to add a driver later.  (The
driver descriptor map in block 0 indicates no drivers are present, and
the partition table entries indicate the driver partitions are not
used.)

It is a while since I did this in a "clean" copy of ADU, so I can't be
certain of this.

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David Empson
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