Re: Big ol' HFS partition

[Jalapeno <jalapeno1@mac.com>]

In article <3DAA0E0E.DF49277F@ySPAMJAMahoo.com>,
 "John E. Becker, Jr" <onlinejb@ySPAMJAMahoo.com> wrote:

> Supertimer wrote:
> > I've created 90MB partitions on a Focus card and 500MB partitions
> > on an SCSI drive so it is definitely not an HFS issue.
> > 
> > The problem might be with the MicroDrive partitioning software.
> > Check the documentation to see if it supports partitioning >32MB.
> 
> Unfortunately, I've lost the manual in a recent move.  To anyone who
> might have the MicroDrive documentation, can you tell me what it says
> about partitions >32MB?

If you are discussing the ///SHH Systeme MicroDrive I have a manual 
dated 1996. It says that older versions of the IDE card won't make 
partitions greater than 32MB but this version does. It also has a 3/4 
page lecture on why you shouldn't use HFS partitions with an Apple IIgs 
(not the least of which is that there are no recovery programs which can 
repair a damaged HFS directory structure on the Apple II).

I think you should boot the utility program and try to make a disk 
partition larger than 32MB (type an E to enter the partition editor).

You will get a !! next to the partition if you are successful (the !! 
being a warning from ///SHH Systeme that you can make partitions as 
large as your hard disk will allow but don't send them any complaints if 
something goes wrong with the data on your hard disk). If the utility 
won't let you make big partitions then your card can't use them anyway.