Re: Help with SCSI HD

[Jay <Someone@somewhere.com>]

Thanks for the help Randy, Wayne and Phoenix!

I think I'll fill the rest of the drive with Prodos partitions... :)

Cheers!

--> Jay


Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> Jay wrote:
> 
> > Greets!
> >
> > I've had my Maxtor 213MB SCSI HD hooked up to the //gs for a long time.
> > I have two prodos partitions, each being 32MB.
> >
> > I have the HFS driver installed, and would love to make an HFS
> > partition (max 2GB right?) so that I can make use of the unused 150MB
> > on the HD.
> >
> > I've tried using the "Apple High Speed SCSI utilities" diskette which
> > came with the HS SCSI card, but it only allows me to create prodos
> > partitions.  Also, it says I can only have two unless I have no
> > floppies on Slot 5.  I have two 3.5" and two 5.25" that I do not
> > want to remove.
> >
> > Can someone please tell me how I can do this?
> >
> > Please respond back here (in case others want to know too), or
> > I can be contacted directly at:  jkett8 AT gte DOT net
> 
> Well, the Apple Hi-Speed SCSI card utilities are pretty limited and dated
> What it said about 4 partitions was true at one time but things have
> changed a lot since that utility came out. I don't recall the number of
> partitions GSOS will allow you but it's enough to fill your desktop
> with icons. If you do need to have all of them accessable from 8 bit
> applications then in your case if you don't have a RAMdisk you'd be
> limited to 9 partitions.
> 
> A better choice of partitioning software might be the Advanced Disk
> utilities which came with later versions of System Software. It'll let you
> 
> make all the partitions you want in any size.
> 
> Keep in mind though that when you start changing or adding partitions
> on a hard drive you usually lose all data and programs on it.
> With that size of drive you could use all ProDOS partitions but if you
> choose to use a HFS partition keep in mind that there are no Apple II HFS
> maintenance utilities and that only GSOS applications can be booted off a
> HFS partition.
> 
> Wayne