Re: Max Size

[david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

shack@pro-ict.cts.com (Randy Shackelford) writes:
>If you mean ProDOS 8 the number of
>volumes accessible at the same time is eight. That includes RAM disks and
>volumes on floppy drives as well. Wouldn't be very useful to have more volumes
>than the operating system can handle.

Depends on your usage. The first limitation is the 14 volumes that the 4 bits
of unit number give you (slot 0 drives 1 & 2 are not used [although I once
used drive 2 for /RAM just to see if it worked and it did]).

The second limitation is that you can only have 8 files open at the same time
and if these are on different disks then 6 of your volumes will be idle. This
is not a problem. How often do you use more than 2 volumes at once (copying
files usually)? The fact that they are sitting there on-line means that you do
not have to remove one disk and insert another.
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