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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RamFAST SCSI Card in ProDOS 8
Message-ID: <16492@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 22 Jun 91 19:55:01 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.093448.10290@clark.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun22.093448.10290@clark.edu> andy@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Andy Stein) writes:
>Can the Apple IIGS, with GS/OS 5.0.4 (actually, System 5.0.4), address 
>more than 32 Megabytes of a hard drive partition? I keep on seeing my hard
>disks partitioned to two volumes- one 32 Megs and the other 8 Megs- and I'd
>rather just have one 40 Meg partition.  I know this might cause problems
>with Prodos 8 applications, but I really don't use that many.

Yes, but only if one accesses the disk directly via the low-level SCSI
interface, not as a filesystem.  If GS/OS's "High Sierra" FST supported
writing as well as reading, you could use that, but it doesn't so you
can't.  The only supported read/write disk filesystem format is ProDOS,
and the ProDOS filesystem has an inherent design limit of 32MB.  This
has nothing to do with whether or not you use ProDOS-8 to access the
filesystem; it is inherent in the data organization.

Perhaps the rumored forthcoming IIGS System Disk 6.0 will provide some
FST that solves this (real and annoying) problem.