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

[thoang@orion.oac.uci.edu (Trangdaithi Hoang)]

In article <38i2qr$797@asia.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:

>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. [other junk removed]

Take your own advice and reread the original post by Luigi and then
Nathan Mates' reply.  In Luigi's post, he never once mentioned the 
file system he was referring to.  You're the one who's >assuming<
that Luigi was referring to the ProDOS file system, but without
reading his mind no one can tell.  After reading Luigi's post, even
I don't think he knows for sure what he's talking about when he
makes a statement referring to another discussion and said that "he
thinks".

This is what Luigi writes:

"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!"

He also made a common mistake by thinking 1 gigabyte is equal to 1000
megabytes.  In computer terminology, 1 gigabyte == 1024 megabytes.
Even you made a wrong assumption.  You said, "... ProDOS partitions 
would eat up the screen!  Obviously, if you used HFS, it wouldn't, but
he wasn't talking about HFS."  I say it's still possible to fill the
screen with enough HFS partitions.  Nathan was right in clarifying very
clearly what Luigi was trying to say and to prevent false imformation
from spreading.  On the other hand, you were clearly out of line, wrong
at your assumption and owe an apology to Nathan.