Re: Internal HD for IIGS?

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Chuck Morris (nospamdotchuckmorris@kc.rr.com) wrote:
: Bill Garber <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net> wrote in message
: o4WdnRQinNW2SBGiRVn-iA@comcast.com">news:o4WdnRQinNW2SBGiRVn-iA@comcast.com...
: >
: > Right now the best thing around and the most readily available
: > is the CFFA card by Rich Dreher. It is I believe $105 and you can
: > get the CF cards from eBay fairly cheap. I just picked up a 256 mb
: > CF card for $51.24 shipped from there. I have 2 of his CFFA cards
: > and I love them. I use one in the IIgs and one for testing in the work
: > room. I'd like 2 more but I have my eye on the Apple I replica by
: > Vince Briel and that will take a few bucks. Here is the link to the
: > CFFA and if you need a cheap CF card for it, let me know and I'll
: > snag you one. It will do up to 1 gb I believe.
: >
: > http://dreher.net/CFforAppleII/
: >
: > Good luck.
: >
: > Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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: > Email - willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net
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: >

: Thanks for the info, Bill!  This looks like a good alternative, and it looks
: like it would also support the 2.5" IDE hard drives, if there's enough power
: available.  The CF card would probably be the most practical solution
: though, and it would probably take me forever to do enough writes to the
: card to wear it out.  If I read the specs for the card properly, the 256MB
: CF card would be the largest capacity that it would make sense to buy, since
: it looks like it will support at most 8 partitions of 32MB each.  Seeing as
: how I've never come close to filling up a 10MB Sider hard drive on the IIe,
: I'll probably just pick up a 128MB CF and leave it at that.

You CAN use larger partitions under GS/OS but you have to format them HFS,
and they are subsequently not available to 8-bit applications.  My
machine, for instance, has a 250Mb SCSI hard drive, four 32Mb ProDOS
partitions, and the rest as a single HFS partition. 

For the curious, the partitions are /GEMINI
                                    /THUNDERBOLT
                                    /TORNADO
                                    /CYCLONE
                                and :Magnum
Just a little info that might make the signature make more sense.  8-)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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