Re: Hard drive question

[lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <25314FLWWXGJMODWQUX@ods.sol.net>, dreamer@ods.sol.net wrote:

> Just when you thought it was safe to enter the newsgroup...;)
>
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far as I know, neither METAL nor GBBS can handle more than 7 partitions
> at a time.  Should I make the boot partition P8 and put the GS/OS
> partitions on the far end, or should I do the reverse, or something

um.. you don't have a choice here - your boot partition MUST be Prodos
>
 entirely different?  Should I make all partitions the same (32.5Mb)
> except the last one (which would come out to 30.5Mb), or should I have
> 7 partitions at the 32.5Mb size and the rest of the HD as one partition,
> or what?
> 
is that a limitation of the BBS 'ware, or tied in to the old ProDOS?  
Under newer versions of ProDOS, while you still can't make use of volumes
larger than 32MB, you CAN have something like 12 or so.

> Or, am I missing some info, and there WOULD be a way to access the
> entire 293Mb thru either BBS program?

>yer on yer own there, but if they are ProDOS programs, I doubt it a lot