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Re: Size Limit

In article <19930909.074523.66@almaden.ibm.com>,
James A. Thielen - Schaumburg, Il. <no> wrote:
>Is there a patch to get around PRODOS's 40 meg Dard Drive partition
>size limit?

It's a 32 meg limit and there's no way to 'patch' around it.  A Prodos
volume is limitted to 32 megs due to the fact that the block pointer is
two bytes long.  65536*512=32 meg.

>Jim

Michael Foegelle

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