Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!udel!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Thanks, and more chat... Message-ID: <14852@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 14 Jan 91 16:52:24 GMT References: Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 21 In article SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU writes: >I am interested to know if you can change the partition to boot off of. I think that initial "cold boot" works only from the boot blocks for the whole drive. Perhaps you may be able to set the boot block contents to search for ProDOS on the desired partition, but I don't know exactly how to go about that. Note that an unmodified ProDOS-8 cannot access more than two partitions on a given SCSI disk. >Is the 32 Meg Partition size for hard drives the absolute maximum >for the II series, or is that just what ProDOS is limited to right now? It's built into the file system structure itself; not even GS/OS is able to get around this for a ProDOS file system. However, GS/OS can support other file system formats that don't have that limitation. Currently, the only GS/OS File System Translator of that kind is the AppleShare one. There have long been rumors that a (Macintosh) HFS File System Translator for GS/OS is in the works, but it hasn't been released. By the way, MS-DOS file systems also have a 32MB partition limit, for reasons similar to the ProDOS limit.