Re: //GS Hard Drive Question

[stevecs@ripco.com (Stephen Costaras)]

Paul Schultz (schultp@aa.wl.com) wrote

: Yes, if formatting using the ProDOS FST. ProDOS has a 32MB limit
: on partitions. But, with the HFS FST you can have a partition up
: to 4GB in size. A word of caution concerning the HFS FST. There
: have been some sporadic reports of bizarre behavior (reported here
: on csa2) when using a large HFS partition with LOTS of files on it.
: That's all I can recall concerning this; perhaps someone else with
: a better memory can jump in here and give more details.


I'd be interested in finding out more about this.  I've got a 2 gig
hd on my //gs now (11 Prodos partitions, and 1 HFS partition for the
rest of the space (where I run gno/me off of).  I currently only
have about 2000 or so files on the HFS partition with no problems, 
when does this start acting up?


Stephen
stevecs@rci.ripco.com