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From: lmb7421@ultb.UUCP (L.M. Barstow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Storage Size Limits for Apple OS's
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Date: 7 Aug 89 21:00:58 GMT
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In article <4111@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> digitalfiend@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott D Palmer) writes:
>
>Is there any maximum storage size limits for either GSOS or ProDOS 8 ?
>I'm considering building my own HD and I was wondering if it was worth 
>getting an 84 meg HD.  I'd be using Apple's SCSI card (revision C).
>Thanks for any help.

The ProDOS file system has a limit of 32Mb of storage.  Luckily, SCSI
drives can be partitioned into multiple virtual drives of smaller size.
Thus, you should be able to make 2 32Mb partitions and a 20 Mb partition
which will work fine (although I think ProDOS 8 only recognizes the
first 2 partitions of any drive, due to the fact that not more than two
drives can exist in the same slot)

Now for a question:  Is there any reason why a hard drive couldn't be
formatted in High Sierra/ISO 9660 format from GS/OS?  Does the code to
write to a disk exist?  Or is High Sierra for the GS limited to CD-ROM
only?


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