Re: Converting 2mg's back to real hardware?

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <427af823.0411081817.39cc3e34@posting.google.com>,
Xerxes409 <colin_tokyo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Whoop -- one more question. I need to get a new SCSI hard drive
>(external, obviously). Since I live in Japan, the crazy electronics
>district has lots of retro Mac hardware and HDD's in smaller sub-1GB
>sizes. Should I buy a certain size (or would it be futile to get
>anything bigger than a certain megabyte count?).

I checked your earlier posts and found that you're running a IIGS.  With
that, you can fairly easily run as large a hard drive as you want.  With the
8-bit IIs, it'd be tricky to effectively use much more than 300 MB or so
because you're limited to however many ProDOS partitions (at 32 MB each) can
be active alongside whatever other storage devices you have.  With the IIGS,
though, you can create a ProDOS partition with the system files, a few more
for 8-bit apps and data, and one big HFS partition that takes up the rest of
the drive.  I'm using a 4.3-GB Seagate Barracuda with my IIGS.  It's set up
with four ProDOS partitions (IIRC) and one HFS partition.  It's connected to
an Apple DMA SCSI card through an 80-to-50-pin adapter that cost a few
dollars.

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