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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk limitations
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Date: 4 Nov 88 20:01:05 GMT
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In article Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM writes:
>Someone recently mentioned a 300MB hard disk was available for the ST,
>but I was told that an ST could only access 195MB on a hard disk.
>
>Can anyone comment?

Well not really. The original 68K GEM inherited the 32Mb hard disk partition
limit from MS-DOS, there was also a sixteen partition limit once but I 
believe that it is now 26 (A-Z). So leaving A,B,C for the floppies and 
the cartridge a simple 32 * 23 calculation yields 736Mb, if it is 16
then you would only get 416Mb. Both numbers being larger than the 195
you mention.


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