Re: Help with SCSI HD

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

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