Re: Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (was Re: Are You Guys Kidding?)

[Dan McCoy <mccoy@cs.widener.edu>]

On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Myles Fudge wrote:

> In article <4smab6$dfu@apache.dtcc.edu> you write:
> >a2pro.gelamp@genie.com wrote:
> >: "Robbie Byrd" <robbieb@monroeville.gulf.net> writes:
> >
> >Unfortunately on 32 MEG ones.
> >-- 
> >Dan McCoy - Macintosh Lab Technician  --  [dmccoy@hopi.dtcc.edu]
> >Delaware Technical and Community College 
> 
> This reply is not to be construed to constitute the beginning or 
> continuance of a flame war, in which I will take no such part.

Well, You should'nt word this like I am some little kid or something.  At 
this point I'd like to flame you but I won't.  I made a mistake in 
typing, geez, you wasted your breath.  I have been doing systems 
engineering and card design for 4 years. I know the APPLE quite well and 
I don't need anyone blabbing about what I do an don't know. I screwed up 
the reply that's all. I was trying to say that on an APPLE IIE, since HFS 
partitions aren't available per say, you are virtually limited to a 32 
MEG partition. 100 MEG zip disk can't be used in whole on a IIE unless 
you partition it down.  Then you are limited with the number of 32 mEG 
partitions that you can have. I simply was stating that you can only have 
32 MEG partiations on an APPLE IIE using ProDOS 8
 
> ProDOS 8 does not treat a 100mb Zip disk "unfortunately only like 32mb 
> ones (hard drives)".  I have a 1083.3 mb SCSI-2 hard drive on this Apple 
> IIgs I am using right now to type to you.  

Yup, using HFS too.

> file system, the ^maximum^ partition size is 32mb.  So how do you best 
> utilize a 100mb zip disk with a maximum partition size of 32mb?  Simple: 
> you create 3 partitions.  After formatting, less than 100mb is available, 
> so you make one 32mb partition, another 32mb partition, and a final 
> 31.5mb partition.  No problem whatsoever.  ProDOS 8 fully utilizes the 
> whole Zip disk by breaking it down into 3 partitions.  Totally 
> functional.  And totally expected by ProDOS 8 users who are quite 
> comfortable and accustomed to multi-partitoned media.

> Do you still think it's Unfortunate?

Smart arse.  Unfortunate that the partitions can't be larger!!!


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