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

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

Trangdaithi Hoang (thoang@orion.oac.uci.edu) wrote:
> 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.

Look, just end this stupid argument.  Everyone is misunderstanding 
everyone so just end it.

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