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From: llp@psuhcx.psu.edu (Laura L. Pauley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: SCSI drives
Keywords: SCSI Hard Drive
Message-ID: <1942@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 89 06:08:20 GMT
References: <9186@microsoft.UUCP> <1989Nov30.231245.7733@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <3311@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: llp@psuhcx.psu.edu (Laura L. Pauley)
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Penn State University
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In article <3311@husc6.harvard.edu> irie2@husc2.UUCP (The Irie One) writes:
|I am thinking of getting a hard drive, and was very interested in the report of
|the Powerdrive from Hard Drives International. One question, though: I am not
|all that familiar with hard drives, so can someone please tell me why you have
|to have the SCSI card in slot 5 to be able to access more than two partitions?
|Is this true for any operating system? (Prodos 8,16 GS/OS)

Well that is due to the restriction of prodos 8&16.  I am not sure how gs/os 
works so I can't help you there.  If you are doing this on a //e you can only 
use up to 40 megs (2 partitions of 20megs each, I think that you can vary them
also...not sure though, i use 2 20's).  There is an execption to that though.
If you move the drive to a GS then you can format to 2 32meg partitions (only allowing 64 megs per SCSI card)  If you put the SCSI controler in slot 5 you can
partition the drive into 4 partitions of 15megs.  That is all of the help that
I have to offer.

Now I have a question here....  Has anyone found out any way to trick prodos 8
to allow you to partition the entire 64megs yet?  I have a problem when it
comes to this because there are no Apple //gs users in this area that I know 
of (is there any in Penn State Main Campus?!?! :-)  )