Re: Max usable space on ProDOS hard drive?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Mister Boffo" <mister_boffo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have an Apple High-Speed SCSI lying around.
> And an APS 700 meg SCSI drive.
>
> So, can an Apple II really make use of all 700 megs or is
> there some sort of "hard limit" to what it can access?
>
> I think ProDOS can create up to 32 meg partions. So I guess
> I would need to create 21 32-meg partitions to use 672 megs
> of space, then one partition of 28 megs to get the last bit
> used. Can ProDOS handle 22 disk volumes like this?
>
> If it can't make use of all the space is it possible for
> ProDOS volumes to coexist with Mac, PC, or other types of
> SCSI partitions?
>

You could use HFS on a large portion of the drive and create
a few Prodos partitions to be available under Prodos.  The
rest would only be available under GS/OS.

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