//GS Hard Drive Question

[mpearce@crl.com (Matthew Pearce)]

 >
 >I can't recall if a hard drive (say a 340 Meg) would have to be
 >partitioned when running GS/OS.  Do large hard drives have to be
 >partitioned to work on a GS?
 
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.
 
You can have Macintosh HFS partitions under GS/OS 6.x.  These can
be larger than 32 megabytes.  You cannot boot from an HFS partition,
and I don't know of any utilites that run under GS/OS that fix
HFS partitions.
 
Taking your 340 meg figure, you could have 7 32M ProDOS partitions
7 * 32 = 224 and one 116M (340-224) HFS partition.
 
M.P.