Re: Apple IIgs Hard Drive

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

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.