Re: CMS SCSI II card

[dan@home.org (Dan)]

On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:15:15 +1200, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) wrote:



>
>With the original Apple SCSI card on a IIe (or in ProDOS-8 on a IIgs)
>you can have up to seven partitions.  The theoretical limit is higher
>for an Apple High-Speed or RamFast SCSI card, but there is a practical
>limit imposed by drives in other slots.
>
>Under GS/OS (on the IIgs), there is a theoretical limit of 63 partitions
>per drive with all three of these SCSI cards, but the CMS card will be
>stuck at two or four.

Not true.  I have a CMS SCSI card in my GS, it will make as many
partitions as needed to use the entire drive.  All are visible under
GS/OS, the 2 partition visible limit applies only to ProDOS.  But you
get to choose which 2 partitions are visible at every boot.

Dan