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

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
> In article <405.UUL1.3#25274@ace.com>, Luigi <luigi@ace.com> 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!

>    For an Apple //e or so, you're right. But, you're doing a grave
> disservice to those of use who own GS's and have System 6 by spreading
> information that just isn't right. (You've been rather wrong on things
> before in the past. Think before you post, and learn when people
> correct you) Let's go over this thing once again:

> - The maximum size of a ProDOS partition is 32MB. Your first (boot)
>   partition must be ProDOS format, and ProDOS 8 programs only work
>   from ProDOS partitions.
> - HFS partitions (introduced with System 6) have a max at either 2 or 4
>   GB. (Far more complicated than this discussion warrants). There is
>   some efficiency lost with lots of really small (<5K or so) files on
>   large HFS partitions, but that's usually immaterial for what people
>   want to store on large volumes, things like pictures, MODs, fonts, etc.

>    Thus, a 1GB drive could have say 5 ProDOS partitions, using up 160
> MB of space, and then one 864 MB HFS partition. Will that eat your finder
> screen? Only if you have really huge icons. I have a 235MB HD at home.
> By your logic, it should have 235/32, or 8 partitions. Nope. 1 20 MB
> boot partition, 4 32MB partitions, and 1 87MB HFS partition.

> Nathan Mates

Hey dude, before you rip him apart for not getting it right, why don't 
YOU read exactly what he said?  He said ProDOS partitions would eat up 
the screen!  Obviously, if you used HFS, it wouldn't, but he wasn't 
talking about HFS.  He was talking about using ALL ProDOS partitions, so 
get it right.  Also, HFS is so damn slow, it's worthless.  I bought a 340 
meg HD and tried it for awhile on my 16MHz GS, and hated every minute of 
it.  I decided to just build a shitload of partitions, and set each one 
up as a directory, so my setup was the same.  I used to have folders 
called Desktop.Pub, Music.Audio, Graphics.Video, etc. but now each one is 
its own 32 meg partition.  Works like a charm, and it flies.

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