Re: What do you need for a 2gs these days?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

jamien@interworx.com.au wrote:

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>Hi, can you use newer IDE hard drives. Right now i'm trying to
>co-ordinate all my work in 8( yes eight) 32 meg virtual Hard Drives in
>XGS. I know Prodos will only allow 32meg partitions, so can i get a 1
>gig drive and cut it up? Or do i have to risk HFS or something a bit
>more exotic. I'd like to only have 1 HD with everything on it and use
>a Zip or a Jaz to ba able to do a total backup.

Yes, you can get a newer IDE drive and partition it.  You need
either the MicroDrive Turbo IDE controller from ///SHH Systeme
(web search will yield web site), which supports drive geometries
of up to 2GB, or http://www.allelec.com/ Alltech Electronic's
IDE hardcard (you can remove the 2.5" mechanism and use
the controller for external 3.5" hard drives up to geometries of
2GB).

I would not recommend splitting a 1GB hard drive into all 32MB
ProDOS partitions.  This is what I did with my 1GB SCSI hard
drive: two 32MB ProDOS partitions and two HFS partitions of
a little less than 500MB each.  I use the first 32MB ProDOS
partition to store GS/OS and my extensions.  I use the second
ProDOS partition for older 8-bit software.  I use the HFS
partitions exclusively for 16-bit GS/OS based software.

I've been using HFS for years without a problem.  It is not risky
at all, once you apply the patch to fix a known bug.

I also have an SCSI Zip drive on my IIGS, but my Zip disks
are exclusively IIGS formatted HFS single partition disks.
Very easy to format this way, you simply stick in an MS-DOS
Zip disk into the drive and click on Initialize from Finder.
Select HFS as the file system and click ok to start.  In a
few minutes, you will have a 96MB HFS diskette.  No
need to mess with partitioning and all that.  ;-)

Good luck!