Re: Appleshare network questions...

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:07:24 GMT, email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com
(Simon Williams) wrote:

>ground.ecn AppleII Librarian <apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
>> The Mac can not share the ProDOS volumes, only the Mac (HFS) volumes.  But
>> these appear as ProDOS volumes through the Appleshare FST on a GS or
>> through Appleshare with the iie card.  (Check that, I never could get the
>> iie card to see the host shared drives.)  I do not see the need to limit
>> HFS to 2GB each.  Why not larger partitions?  Appleshare doesn't have a
>> limit that I know of.  You may wnat one smaller partition for a2 files
>> (ProDOS naming convention) and the larger partition for Mac files.
>
>AFAIK, older versions of AppleShare are limited to 2GB, as were Systems
>before 7.5(?) Possibly I could go with 4GB partitions, I'll have to do
>some more research.

It is quite possible it is limited to 4 GB which makes it similar to
GS/OS which can only access volumes up to 4 GB in size.  The 2 GB
limit comes from the fact that that is the largest volume you can
create with HFS.  If you want a larger volume than that on your Mac
you need to use HFS+.

>I was not aware, however, that ProDOS volumes couldn't be shared... I
>guess that simplifies things in a way. Can the IIe w/Workstation card
>deal with HFS volumes that are larger than ProDOS's 32MB limit???

It is possible that AppleShare server software for the Mac simply
doesn't know enough about ProDOS volumes to be able to convert the
directory information into data it can use.  AppleShare does have its
own way of storing directory information.

ProDOS' AppleShare support has no problems dealing with volumes up to
2 GB, or possibly larger, because you can't read or write to a
specific block on an AppleShare volume.  You can only access the files
through their filename and such (directory info basically).

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