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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: partitions of 32
Message-ID: <13050@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 Jun 90 17:10:42 GMT
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In article <1369@madnix.UUCP> rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
>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?

Not quite -- ProDOS-8 supports only two partitions per device, although
under certain circumstances it will map two more for a second device on
the same controller (slot 5 into slot 2, if I recall correctly).  However,
GS/OS directly supports a more-or-less arbitarily large number of
partitions, and each SCSI bus supports up to 7 peripherals.

One consequence of this for IIGS users is that any software that
executes in an 8-bit environment had better keep its files in the
first two partitions, so that ProDOS-8 can see them.