Re: Hard drive

[wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager)]

Charles Claypoole (charlesc@pro-haven.cts.com) wrote:
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:         I am purchasing a 516M hard drive and would like to use it on the
: gs.    I have a RamFast installed.  What is the best way to install/format
: the disk?   I know prodos can only use 32m partitions...  do I have to
: format the rest HFS?   Thanks.

You can either format the rest as HFS, or format the entire drive in 32MB 
ProDOS partitions and swap them in & out with the RamFAST.  You could 
keep your main partitions active all the time, and the "hidden" ones 
could be used for volume-volume backups or little-used file storage.
 
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