Re: Largest HD on GS?

[hskim@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (H S Kim)]

stevecs@rci.ripco.com (Stephen Costaras) writes:

>:    Theoretically, I think there's about a 4GB limit per drive partition, so
>: you don't have to really worry about a 600MB drive at all, except for the
>: following things. Here's a quick rundown on drives, formatting, and more:

>Under what operating system?   I have two 1.8gig drives running on my //gs
>and under GS/OS I can only get a max of 14 partitions per drive.   Under
>Prodos, those can only be 32meg each.  (max that's 448megs.  (32*14).  

Yep HFS has a 2gig limit per volume/partition.  That 448meg max limit
is assuming you don't need your floppy disk drive.  :)

>I have my system set up so that I have 10 32meg volumes on my first drive 
>(in slot 7) that I use for all my P8 and other Prodos dependant software,
>and the rest of that drive (about 1.4 gig) set up as a HFS partition.  And
>_ALL_ of the second 1.8gig drive as a HFS partition.

Ack!  In HFS for every 32 megs a file will eat 512bytes of allocation
space.  At 1.8gigs that's 28.8k per file!  (1800/32)(512bytes)=28.8kb!!
That is assuming 1.8gig is you formatted capacity.

>From what I remember on the Macs, HFS has a 2.0gig limit per partition size
>but you should be able to get 14 partitions so total available is 28gigs
>on-line.   BUT NO MORE THAN 2.0gigs PER PARTITION  (also no more than 7
>devices.   ).  

>Personally, The largest drive I've hooked up to my system are the 1.8gigs
>so I don't have personal experience in anything larger than that..

Hope you're not storing too many small files, that would ba an awful
waste of space (1k file on 1.8gig volume = 29.8k).  But then you're
probable not too worried about space.  :)

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