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From: grieggs@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk limitations
Message-ID: <3482@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 9 Nov 88 16:21:28 GMT
References: <881104030315.414923@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>
Reply-To: grieggs@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <881104030315.414923@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM> 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.

16 Mb per partition * 12 partitions = 192 Mb

If anyone knows a not-too-illegal way around this limit, I would like
to hear about it.  I know of no way to effectively use a 300 Mb unit
on an ST at this time.

_john

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