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From: rcbamw@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (m.waucomont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Capacity of Quantum Q250?
Message-ID: <881@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 29 Aug 89 09:07:11 GMT
References: <2468@pur-phy>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <2468@pur-phy> cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) writes:
>I have a Mac II with an internal "Apple" Quantum Q250 40M hard disk.
>Some time ago, there was talk of Apple sticking some higher capacity
>drives in and using them as 40M drives.  I could certainly use any
>extra space that's "hidden".  How do I go about determining the true
>capacity, and utilizing it if it's actually > 40M?
>
>Charles Allen		cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu

Last night I played with my recently obtained 40 SC and formatted it myself
for the first time (it came formatted). If you click the 'partition' button
(not sure about the name, it was 4.15 am when I did so) in the apple HD init
utility, you can see they reserve a 2099K partition for unix stuff (root,
usr etc.) they call it 'Free Space'... Since I will never ever be able to
use A/UX on my Plus, I also have the desire to use this 'free space'. It was
a bit late to figure out how to do so. Suggestions ????

Michel 'Mikki' Waucomont     rcbamw@eutr3.urc.tue.nl