Re: ***Can I Use a Gig. SCSI2 Drive on GS?

[cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <Cp86u2.Ksq@umassd.edu>,
Christopher Adams <cadams@cis.umassd.edu> wrote:
>Hi , I am thinking about getting a Gig drive.. Yeah lots of space:)
>
>but i was wondering will gsos handle it? How large can the partitions
>be and such?  or can i use the whole thing.. i have a ramfast rev. c i 
>think do i need
>special roms to address that much physical space?
>

You don't need special ROMs. However: the ProDOS FST can only handle
partitions 32 MB large; theoretically, you could have 32 of those, but
ProDOS 8 can only handle 14 partitions, I think. 
To use bigger partitions, you need to have the HFS FST installed; they
can handle anything up to 2 gig, or is it 4. But you can't boot an HFS
partition.
There are further drawbacks, the most serious of wich is that there are no
block-level utilities to handle HFS partitions; in other words, you
can't undelete files or repair a volume. UniverseMaster was supposed to
gain this capability eventually, but I haven't heard from Econ in a long
time; I wonder if the UM is still developed, or even if Econ's still in
business.

>also is Scsi 2 compatable with ramfast..

I think not, but I'm not sure.

>I would think it would be backwardly compatable?

"Backward compatibility" means that a SCSI-2 _controller_ can handle
SCSI-1 drives. I would think so too, FWIW, but it's irrelevant.

>Also does anyone have the new TMS perf.  name and Phone #?

Name = Power City, beyond that I don't know. Btw, it's not a simple name
change, so PC might not support/service drives bought from TMS.

>Chris Adams
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