Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: //E HD Message-ID: <1990Dec24.045139.7960@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 24 Dec 90 04:51:39 GMT References: Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 17 avarg@gnh-applesauce.cts.com (Abel Vargas) writes: >Is there a way to go around the ProDOS 8 32-meg limit on devices? That is, is >there a way to allow my //e to use a hard drive bigger than 32 MB? sure there is. you partition the hard drive into 32 meg partitions that each look like a separate drive to prodos. the problem is that the DMA SCSI card only supports 2 of these in prodos 8 (4 if the card is in slot 5) unless you get a nifty little patch called SCSI.PART, and an infinite # of partitions under GS/OS. The ramfast supports 8 under both prodos 8 and GS/OS. (This might change with the new ROM release, I'm not sure.) I have a 105 meg quantum with four partitions. I used a DMA SCSI / SCSI.PART for a while and then sold it and got a RAMfast. Worked fine with both. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu