Re: Apple IIgs Hard Drive

[Carl Reilly <nosp@m.man>]

Thanx to all for the info. It's greatly appreciated and helped me out 
very well.

Cheers,
	Carl

ps: yes, I'm reading th FAQ :)  Now all I need is the Bard's Tale series 
to play and I'll be quiet for months ;)

In article <5adOc.21830$hf4.18148@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com>, 
a2fan@hotmail.com says...
> ProDOS partitions are limited to 32MB in size. The # of partitions you can
> use depends on if you're using ProDOS 8, or GS/OS. You can use the HFS.fst
> to break the 32MB barrier and use larger drives, but the HFS.fst is buggy -
> never use it for important stuff. All this info is in the FAQs.
> 
> My advice, use GS/OS - don't bother with a CF card bigger than 512MB - even
> 128MB is huuuuge from an Apple II's perspective. Unless you're seriously
> into collecting ASCii porn or mod files, you're unlikely to use up all that
> space.
> 
> You can use the CFFA card in conjunction with other drives - SCSI, Focus
> IDE... the CFFA doesn't do DMA so it's slower. If you're planning to add an
> external CD-ROM, HD or tape drive to the GS, go SCSI if you can, but I
> usually recommend getting a Focus drive - they're fast, easy to install and
> use and very reliable.
> 
> You really need more RAM. 1MB doesn't cut it for GS/OS - without more RAM,
> all you have is a fast Apple //e.
> 
> 
> "Carl Reilly" <Carlno.spamplezeReilly@uregina.ca> wrote in message
> MPG.1b73102e858595e989685@news.uregina.ca">news:MPG.1b73102e858595e989685@news.uregina.ca...
> > Am I correct in saying that only 2G (+128MB) is all that can be used
> > with GS/OS installed?  Leaving the the other 7G's or so of a 10GB HD
> > wasting?  2G is a tremendious amount of space for this beast, that's for
> > sure.  I read the user's guide this morning and was a little confused
> > between pg's 18 and 10.  I'm not thoroughly aware of the limits of
> > ProDOS or the GS/OS.  Out of curiousity, are there any other OS's for
> > this beast?  I am aware of GEOS, but haven't really heard anything about
> > it on the Apple side of things.
> 
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