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Re: //GS Hard Drive Question



In article <2uq38t$l9g@crl.crl.com>, Matthew Pearce <mpearce@crl.com> wrote:
>GS/OS (due to ProDOS 8 limitations) cannot access more than 32
>megs in a partition.  GS/OS supports 8 devices, so that
>gives you 8 * 32 = 256 megabytes.

	Bull.  GS/OS is the _OPERATING SYSTEM_.  It has no direct correlation
to the disk format itself.  I'm being too lazy to look up the info, but I 
presume that the max block # is a long, which would thus be 4 gigabytes.

	Because of the wonderfulness of GS/OS, the literal disk format is 
taken care of with FSTs which understand a certain API which then actually
talk to the device drivers, which do the actual reading/writing.  Anyway,
GS/OS in no way has 32 megabyte _anything_.

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