Re: 800K partitions

[lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)]

In article <jmk3.744086348@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>>>Anyone know of a way to create 800K partitions?
>>>Is the partitionling info documented? In the Driver Ref?
>>>Are the Chinook SCSI Utils still available?
> 
>>What do you mean?  Advanced Disk Utilities or any other partiton software
>>should be able to handle it.  800k is 32k increment ( what ever; divisible
>>by 32 ).
> 
>The Chinook Utils could set the partition size down to the block.
>I sold my version 1.0 instead of upgrading to 1.5; a mistake.
>ADU partitions in 512K incrememnts.
 
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    /-\ctually, the Chinook SCSI Utils (at least the version I have, 1.5)
 only have a resolution of 1K, not one block (.5K).  This was quite a
 frustration to me when I decided to repartition my hard drive so that
 I would have a series of partitions equal in size to my Floptical
 diskettes.  You see, a blank Floptical comes out to 20330.5K....
 However, that was using Tulin's drivers (written by Matt Gulick).
 When I tried running with Richard Bennet's drivers, I found that they
 formatted a Floptical to 20331K!  (There's still only 20330.5K of
 free space on the diskette -- the driver just reports to GS/OS that
 there's an extra .5K.  I repartitioned my drive to 20331K partitions,
 and I figure that as long as I don't fill them up to the last .5K, I
 should be ok using the Flopticals for backup.)
     _
    (_)ne interesting discovery during my experiments was that the
 Chinook SCSI Utilities could sucessfully do a Get Info on the
 Floptical, returning all that nifty info that it does...  All other
 operations result in a timeout error, though (as to be expected).
     _
    /-\ user on GEnie reported that he was sucessfully using his
 Floptical as a hard drive for a PC Transporter, which is interesting
 because the PCT uses a P8 loader.  I suspect that it was working only
 because the PCT had to have been making direct SCSI calls (like
 Chinook SCSI Utils), and must wait a long time before timing out (a
 good idea for the PCT, since it would have to work on quite a variety
 of different drives).
     _
    (_)h, I have talked to Tulin, and suggested to them that they get
 Matt to modify their driver slightly so that it formats a blank
 Floptical out to 20330K, losing the last .5K.  I also suggested they
 find someone to write a SCSI formatting/partitioning program for
 them, since Chinook SCSI Utils is no longer published, and nothing
 else that I know of has such a resolution on partitions (except for
 the RamFAST utils, which have a resolution of 32K).
 

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