Re: 20 Years Later: What storage options for IIgs?

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <a82b2c57-de27-4c94-8fd3-8cc36b6c6d65@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
 <altan@aol.com> wrote:
>Also, regarding the CFFA, can you get it to act like a ton of 800K
>drives rather than 4 32MB volumes?  Acting like a ton of 800K drives
>(even if you could only pick two at a time) would (I expect) would
>provide more compatibility.

There's no reason to do that.  ProDOS and GS/OS, unlike DOS 3.3 and the OSes
for most competing systems, were well-designed enough from the start that
you don't need to create a zillion tiny filesystems to make full use of a
disk.  

I'm not sure if the CFFA supports this, but if it does, the partition setup
I'd recommend for a IIGS is two or three 32MB ProDOS partitions with the
remainder (whatever that happens to be) set up as an HFS partition.  If you
have more 8-bit stuff, you might create a few more ProDOS partitions since
they can't run from the HFS partition, but 32MB per partition goes a long
way when you're dealing with software that originally shipped on 140K 5.25"
floppies.

I have a 4.3GB SCSI hard drive hanging off an Apple DMA SCSI card, set up
this way.

(If you decide to do this, it might not be a bad idea to format the drive on
a Mac so it can write its driver partition to the disk.  That way, if
something goes awry with the HFS partition, you can plug the drive back into
a Mac to fix it; there are no HFS repair utilities that run on the IIGS.)

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