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From: samt@pro-europa.cts.com (Sam Theis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: How to interface Apple IIGS and Maxtor 760M drive.
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Date: 7 Apr 90 19:16:06 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from max@lgc.com

>Does anybody have any idea of whether I can interface a standard Maxtor SCSI
>drive (760M) to the Apple version of SCSI?  What issues will I face?  How
>will I low-level format the drive?  Will I be able to use the entire disk?
>As one partition or many?  Any help would be appreciated?

>P.S.  Who makes SCSI boards besides Apple and how do they compare?
 
ProDOS and GS/OS when using the ProDOS FST is limited to 32MB "volumes", so
that 760MB disk will have to be partitioned into 20+ "partitions".  I think
that the supported limit is more like 10 partitions.  
 
There might be hope if Apple releases System Disk 6.0 with a HFS FST soon.


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