Re: What's the largest partition possible?

[david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

foegelle@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle) writes:
>block utilities would still probably choke.  A more preferable option might
>be to at least just do away with slot-drive notation, or add more drives per
>slot.  Most slot-drive software wouldn't work on those extra partitions, but
>there are very few pieces of software that are so limitted.  And so what?  
>They'd still work on the first 14 partitions and we'd still be able to go over
>400 megs without too much trouble.  
>(Granted, very few people will probably EVER put 500 megs on a //e, but it
>was very disappointing/disconcerting to have bought another drive and discover
>no way of accessing all of it.  Luckily I can program in assembly!) 

Appleshare volumes need not appear in slot/drives (but can) so P8 can support
more than 14 volumes on line at once. If a driver was written to intercept calls
to $BF00 just like Appleshare we could have as many volumes as we want. This
would be difficult (and where in memory would you put it) but it could be done.
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