Re: Partiton limit on ProLine? No such thing!

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Earl Cooley III (shiva@pentagon.io.com) wrote:
: In article <cn23392@pro-ssor.cts.com>,
: Sean Turner <sturner@pro-ssor.cts.com> wrote:
: >It would be obvious that that person who had ProLine who could only access
: >one partition did not know what he was doing. ProLine can support as many
: >partitions as the hard drive can hold.

I bet he's talking about how the data librarian program for file transfers
only supports one volume. This is a serious limitation, and MDavis says the
next major update will have a replacement for DL. I never installed it on my
now defunct proline because of this.

: How can this be true? Don't you still have to link each partition to a slot
: and drive number? There are only a limited number of these available. Or are
: you talking about the GS? I use an enhanced IIe with a RamFast card (rev. C)
: and there is a definite limite to the number of partitions available as far
: as I can tell. 

Well with ProDOS 2.0, the device mapping can handle more volumes per device.
It should be able to handle as many volumes as Apple's partitioning setup
can support. The absolute limit is 14 drives, with 8 volumes simultaneously
online.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
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