Re: //GS Hard Drive Question

[schultp@aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz)]

Charles Lott (ZCEL02@TULATCPA.amoco.com) wrote:
: I have a question, which I'm sure you'll think is less than informed,
: AND, YOU'D BE RIGHT!

: I can't recall if a hard drive (say a 340 Meg) would have to be
: partitioned when running GS/OS.  Do large hard drives have to be
: partitioned to work on a GS?

: I'm seriously considering buying one, but wanted to make the
: right choice.

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.

Paul Schultz
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