Re: [IIgs] Buying a Hard Drive for my old IIgs

["Dominic Wu" <dwu@swales.com>]

How do you get an HFS partition going?  I hooked up a 1GB to my GS and it
would only mount a maximum of 4 32MB partitions using System 6.  So
realitically, all I need is an 80MB HDD since I figured the rest was wasted.
Please do enlighten me on this topic.


"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> The Focus drive can be upgraded to larger sizes if you can get the drives.
I
> have a 750Mb 2.5" IDE IBM drive in mine, but I've think you can go up to
> 2.2G at the most. Mind you at 2.2G you either have a lot of 32MB ProDOS
> partitions (to a maximum of 32 x 32MB) or a few 32MB ProDOS partitions and
a
> huge HFS partition or two.
> In practical terms I think 500MB to 1G is more than most users will ever
> use.
>
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> "Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com> wrote in message
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> > "R.W.G." <rwgomez@hotTHIS-IS-ANTI-SPAM-TEXTmail.com> wrote in message
> > 3da0bc3d.34593022@netnews.worldnet.att.net">news:3da0bc3d.34593022@netnews.worldnet.att.net...
> > > I am in the process of bringing my old Apple IIgs out of retirement
> > > and am interested in getting a hard drive. Back in the day I never had
> > > a hard drive, so I haven't the foggiest notion of what took look for
> > > as far as brand names, or what to look for when shopping around.
> > >
> > > Is there a specific brand/type of drive that anyone could recommend?
> > > Are they still being produced? What is the approximate cost (in $) of
> > > one new or used?
> > >
> > > T.I.A.
> > >
> > > -RWG
> >
> > Though I don't own one, the FocusDrive IIGS by Alltech Electronics has
> been
> > recommended many times in this group.  It is a 170MB drive with GS/OS
> 6.0.1
> > installed for $99.
> >
> > There is more information at this address:
> >
> > http://allelec.com/indexa2.html
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
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