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Re: Hard drive

In article <ka42886@pro-haven.cts.com>, charlesc@pro-haven.cts.com
(Charles Claypoole) wrote:

>        
>        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.
>
HAVE  to?  no..but if you want to use all of the drive, you'll need to
format at least some of it as HFS.  I forget how many  prodos volumes you
can have under the latest ProDOS, but it's certainly not enough to deal
with a 500MB drive.

I'd format as much as possible as ProDOS, though, and only then fill up
the rest as HFS - thre are no GS utilities I know of that understand HFS -
so corrupt files on the HFS partition are dead dead dead

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