Re: 32MB is size???

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <442eef27$0$7748$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net>,
Linards Ticmanis  <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:

> I should add... ProDOS can store up to 32MB, but of course not on a
> floppy disk.

Depends on what kind of floppy disk you use ... ZIP disks can store
100 or 250 MBytes, and a JAZ disk can store 1 GByte.  Each of these
will be able to store multiple ProDos volumes 32 MB each.

> It can store only 140KB on a 5.25 inch floppy disk, just like DOS 3.3.

Only if you assume a 5.25" floppy always is single-sided 35-track.  On
a double-sided 80-track DD floppy disk one should be able to store at
least a 640 KB ProDos volume.  I once used 80-track double-sided DD
floppies to store two 320 KB DOS 3.3 disk volumes, one for each side
of the disk.  Of course this requires an 80-track double-sided floppy
disk reader, a hardware interface between this disk reader and the
Apple II disk controller card, plus an RWTS capable of handling that.
But it can be done -- the OS itself is not the limitation beyond 140
KB.

> Only on a hard disk, CD-ROM etc. you can store up to 32 MB per partition.

Don't make these assumptions about physical media..... there are floppy
disks which can store multiple 32 MB volumes oh each disk.

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