Re: IIgs Newbie Question

[ak760@lafn.org (Rod O'Brien)]

In a previous article, erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel) says:

>In article <1995May12.171745.5043@lafn.org>, ak760@lafn.org (Rod O'Brien) wrote:
>> Any SCSI hard drive can easily be added to a GS, get a RamFAST SCSI card 
>> (the best in my opinion) and a HD. Remember though, a HD must be 
>> partitioned into 32 meg partitions maximum. And a RAmfast will allow you 
>> to have up to 12 devicess available at one time. This includes any 
>> active disk drives. So in your case you already have 4 devices online if 
>> they are all active.
>> 
>Hmm? is there a problem with HFS partitions?  If so, I need to change my
>hard drive partitioning fast!.  The only partition that MUST be proDOS
>(and so subject to that darn 32MB limit) is the boot partition.  The
>entire rest of your drive may be one large HFS partition.  I don't
>recommend this, cuz it gets kinda slow, but it is legal and possible
>
I don't know of any GS utility that can backup and restore a large HFS 
partition. This is the reason I think HFS should be used only for a 
nonimportant partition. I also think this could be a good project for the 
guys at GS+ but it maybe impoosible to implement.
I also find that by partitioning my HD I can BU fater when I know I have 
made no changes to certain partitions.

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