Re: Max Size

[shack@pro-ict.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:

>In article <mark-071093101714@128.157.9.145> mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:
>>What is the maximum disk drive size you can have on an Apple SCSI
>>card for the //gs?  Thanks. :)
>
>Theoretically there's no limit.  If you format it as ProDOS partitions, you'll
>run out of ability to use it after 14 partitions times 32 megabytes (about
                                    ^^
No such limit exists in GS/OS does it? If you mean ProDOS 8 the number of
volumes accessible at the same time is eight. That includes RAM disks and
volumes on floppy drives as well. Wouldn't be very useful to have more volumes
than the operating system can handle.

I thought I read somewhere that Apple's system software only supported up to
seven volumes on a device on top of that.

>500-600 megs).  If you format as HFS, each partition can be up to a
cozy 4 >gigs or so, which is a lot of space :)

Yep I can't imagine why anyone would want to chop up a big drive into 32 mb
chunks
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