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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: partitions of 32
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Date: 3 Jun 90 07:31:43 GMT
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Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
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guyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:

[in response to sl195091@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mark Lieb)]

>>I was talking with a friend about the use of HD larger than the allowed
>>standard of 32megs as per ProDOS.  With the advent and introduction of
>>larger HDs, ie Vulcan, how is this problem overcome?
>
>At present, one partitions the disk into segments that don't exceed the
>32MB ProDOS filesystem limit.

Isn't there also a 2 drives per slot limit?  How does a super large
HD get handled, for example, say, a 100M drive?  With a 32M max partition,
that would mean right about 4 partitions.  How would Prodos use all
these partitions?

Just curious...

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