Re: Seagate ST255N [20 Meg SCSI] Wanted

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

The HFS FST will allow you to use larger partitions than 32MB but it isn't
recommended you store anything important on an HFS partition, at least not
without a good backup. Lots of info on this in the FAQs. The HFS FST isn't
100% reliable, and not much utility support for when things go horribly
wrong. As to hacking and patching ProDOS - a lot of people have tried, and
failed or broke too many utilities out there.

We are talking about the Apple II here - keeping this in perspective, 32MB
in Apple II terms is a LOT of space. If you can fill up one to four or more
32MB partitions (=>128MB) with Apple II specific programs and data, then the
better and safer solution is to fall back to another media - a zip drive or
use the CFFA card and swap partitions when needed.

I have a couple of 500MB and 700MB Focus Drives... I've used the extra space
as an HFS partition to copy CD-ROMs to but nothing else - never been a need.
Besides, do you know how long it would take to verify a disk that big?!
Yowza!

> Hmm....
>
> Thinking about that.  What is it that PREVENTS us from using larger
> volumes?  Why can't we hack GS/OS or ProDOS to use more of the hard
> drives? Why is it practically impossible?
>
> Charles