Re: Largest HD on GS?

[stevecs@rci.ripco.com (Stephen Costaras)]

: In article <CLBoCu.1J5@news.direct.net>,
: Elliot Abramowitz <elliota@indirect.com> wrote:
: >I'm curious as to what the largest hard drive size is that I can put onto 
: >a gs system using gs/os and still be able to reach all the files?  Is a 
: >600meg drive possible? Also, someone recommened using HFS, what is he 
: >talking about and should it be done??

:    Theoretically, I think there's about a 4GB limit per drive partition, so
: you don't have to really worry about a 600MB drive at all, except for the
: following things. Here's a quick rundown on drives, formatting, and more:


Under what operating system?   I have two 1.8gig drives running on my //gs
and under GS/OS I can only get a max of 14 partitions per drive.   Under
Prodos, those can only be 32meg each.  (max that's 448megs.  (32*14).  

I have my system set up so that I have 10 32meg volumes on my first drive 
(in slot 7) that I use for all my P8 and other Prodos dependant software,
and the rest of that drive (about 1.4 gig) set up as a HFS partition.  And
_ALL_ of the second 1.8gig drive as a HFS partition.