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From: bklaas@cmdfs2.intel.com (Brian Klaas~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard drive woes
Message-ID: <116@cmdfs2.intel.com>
Date: 24 Jul 89 02:28:39 GMT
References: <8367@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <160700044@primerd> <6354@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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In-reply-to: HONORS@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu's message of 23 Jul 89 23:22:55 GMT

In article <6354@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> HONORS@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

   In article <160700044@primerd>, barry@primerd.prime.com writes:
   > The fact that the DeskTop file is a resource file limits a hard
   > drive to about 2200 files.  One way out is to partition the
   > hard drive.  SUM contains a utility for doing this.  Alsoft,
   > makes of DiskExpress, also sell one.  There are probably others.

   You should note that NOT ALL HARD DRIVE PARTITIONING PROGRAMS ARE THE SAME!
   SUM's HD Partition, for example, creates a new file on your hard drive for 
   each partition you create, and then stores all the files for that partition
   in that one large disk file.  This is markedly inferior (in most situations)
   to a true SCSI partition, like the A/UX partitions you can create with 
   Apple's SCSI setup program.  I'm not familiar with other partitioning 
   programs; has anyone else used one?
		     
                 Travis Butler

The software that comes with Jasmine drives allows true partitioning.
Not sure if it will work with any other drives.  It requires
reinitializing a drive to set it up for partitions.


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