Re: 'locking out' partitions of a hard drive

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:29:30 -0600, Jack Countryman
<jcountry@seidata.com> wrote:

>Somewhere I saw an explanation that said the Apple card makes a 32 meg
>partition 32767.5K in size while the RamFast makes the partitions 32768K
>in size.  
>
>However, like another poster, I've used the RamFast Utilities to set up
>partitions that got used on both Apple High Speed and Apple Rev C cards
>with no problems that I'm aware of.  

If you use the RamFAST utilities to create a partition that is exactly
32768K then the RamFAST initializes the drive for you automatically
but sets the drive size to 32767.5K instead of 32768K wasting one
block.

This isn't a serious problem at all and won't cause any problems when
hooking the drive up to other SCSI cards.

All you have to do to regain that last block on the partition is to
initialize the partition from the Finder (or other utility program)
once you boot after creating it.

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