Re: A2 SCSI Partition Utility

["Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com>]

"Joel" <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I was thinking of a somewhat less ambitious approach to handling a 2GB
drive
> on my IIgs.
>
> Make 60 or so 32 Mb partitions.
>
> System 6.01 can handle over 32 partitions, (though after about 30, the
> finder puts them all on top of each other on the desktop and you have to
> manually separate them.)
>
> My idea is PU - a SCSI Partition Utility.
> This would let you rewrite the partition table to rearrange the order of
the
> partitions.
> ProDOS 8 only allows you to see at most 14 partitions (fewer if you're
using
> any other disk devices).
> PU would allow you to pick which ones and also to change which one is the
> boot partition.
> With that feature, I might also want to allow DOS3.3, CP/M and Pascal boot
> partitions as well.
>
> This approach is probably a lot easier to implement and presents few
> compatibility problems.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts on this idea?
>
>
>

    It may be possible to link 50 or 60 partition of 32MB into single
partition of 2GB.  It is like Linux filesystem, but each partition's free
and used blocks will be added together into single partition's free and used
blocks.  What do you think?