Re: ProDOS 32MB limit?

["Tom Zuchowski" <71214.1670@compuserve.com>]

I am not aware of any way around the 32MB partition limit for ProDOS.  The
way to handle this is to partition your large hard drive into multiple
logical volumes.  ProDOS 2.0.3 can handle up to 14 drives and remaps the
extras into other slots (the slots are still available for other cards).

ProDOS 2.0 requires an enhanced IIe.  If you have an unenhanced IIe, you
have to use ProDOS 1.9, which handles disk partitions and SCSI chains just
fine but has a slot limit of two drives per slot.  It cannot remap them
like 2.0 does.

TomZ

Michael Kelsey (Journey finatic) <mkelsey@eecs.wsu.edu> wrote in article
<E60AB1.EB@serval.net.wsu.edu>...
> For over two years now I have been heavily involved in the PC market,
dis-
> banding my Apple II usage when my ColorMonitor //e failed to turn on one
> day.
> 
> Over this period I have acquired numerous hard drives ranging in size
from
> 40MB to 100MB, all SCSI by nature.  The SCSI interface inside my Apple II
> is an off-brand AEC low-cost solution that has the ability to recognize
> a single hard drive as one two partitions, but nothing more despite the
> hard drive size.  It will also recognize two separate hard drives,
peaking
> at 32MB per drive.
> 
> Effectively, I lose space when connecting a 100MB SCSI drive versus a
60MB
> drive, imposed by the limitations of ProDOS.  The software provided with
> the controller recognizes the size of the hard drive even though it spans
> well above the 32MB limit.