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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: 1.2 Gig drive
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Date: 19 Apr 91 00:24:27 GMT
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In article <16682@chaph.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
>In article <1991Apr13.211112.11899@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>
>>   "For the remaining disk capacity, I elected to be symmetric and specified
>>four maximum-sized (256-magabyte) BGM partitions."
>	
>	What is a BGM partition?  Can it only be used with >= TOS1.4?  Does the
>TT have the same 32MB partition limit?
>
>>
>>BTW, he was using ICD's utilities with ICD host adapter.

BGM stands for Big GeM; at least that what one reference called it.  I think
can only be used with TOS 1.4.  It sets the sectors (correct term?) to anything
higher than 512 bytes.  You can go up to 2048 I believe.

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