Re: Partioning SCSI drives larger than 130 Megs?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:

>Now that external hard drive prices are dropping, I've upgraded a couple
>of Apple //e's to 80 and 160 megabytes.  I'm using the Apple SCSI Utility
>disk, but it will only allow up to four 32mb partitions (128 mb).  I've
>read the ads in the old Apple II magazines that were selling 200 and even
>500 mb hard drives for the Apple II computers (10, 20, 40, 80, 100,), so
>I figure that there must be a way to partition a SCSI drive into more
>partition, just like the FOCUS IDE drive can be partitioned into up to 14
>partitions.
>If I'm on the right track, then what program am I looking for?  Is there
>anything in Freeware, Public Domain or Shareware?

Find yourself an Apple IIGS motherboard.  These can be found
cheap on comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.  Replace the IIe motherboard
with he IIGS one.

Now run GS/OS.  Use Advanced Disk Utilities to partition the disk.
Note that with GS/OS, you can use HFS, a filesystem that breakes
the 32mb barrier.  That means you can have one 32MB ProDOS
partition and have the rest as a big HFS partition.

I like HFS a lot and have never had a problem with it.  I just wish
the IIGS can boot off an HFS partition so that I did not have to
mess with ProDOS at all.