Re: Seagate ST255N [20 Meg SCSI] Wanted

[twohandsfree@hotmail.com (John)]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20040515034857.16730.00001275@mb-m12.aol.com>.

> Get a drive that's only 5-10 years old, smaller, cooler, larger,
> and with a decade more life in it.
> 
> SCSI drives from older Macs are plentiful, cheap, and
> will work just fine.
> 
> You can partition them to get access to more of their
> space, or you can just waste it, and only use 32MB.

Ditto. Get a newer bigger drive, use a bunch of 32mb Prodos partition.
Then some HFS partitons to use the remaining space.

I believe the main downside of HFS partitions on a IIgs is the lack of
disk utilities to check, fix, restore, etc. - keep that in mind when
you consider how to use these partitions.