RE: What kind of SCSI drives can be used on the GS?

[bpvh@msn.fullfeed.com (Bradley VonHaden)]

luigi@ace.com (Luigi) wrote:

>>seen a lot of good deals on 1G+ drives that I'm lusting after... :P

>I seriously recommend _against_ getting a 1 Gig drive for an
>Apple II. There was another discussion about the maximum size
>of HD partitions and I think the final decision was that you
>could only have up 32 Megs in each one, and 1000 / 32 = 31,
>so it would fill up your whole desktop!

The maximum Prodos partition is 32megs, but with System 6.0.1, HFS
partitions can be used.  These partitions can be very large 500megs
plus.

The major limitation, if partitioning on a GS, is the number of
partitions.  With an Apple HS SCSI card and Advanced Disk Utilities,
there is a limit of 8 partitions.  With the RAMFast card, I believe
the limit is 12 partitions.

There is a possible problem with HFS partitions.  Some users have
reported major problems, while others have reported none at all.  If
you do have problems on an HFS partition, there is no IIGS software
to correct the problem.  A MAC can help IF a MAC hard drive driver is
installed on the drive.

What did I miss this time?

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