Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!atari!danscott
From: danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk limitations
Message-ID: <1226@atari.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 23:47:54 GMT
References: <575@skywest.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA.
Lines: 17

in article <575@skywest.UUCP>, brenes@skywest.UUCP (Erasmo Brenes) says:
> 
> In article <3713@druhi.ATT.COM> dlm@druhi.ATT.COM (Dan Moore) writes:
>>original doc said there was a 32 drive limit.)  Drives A and B
>>are used for floppies, leaving 14 drives for hard disk partitions. 
>>Atari's hard disk software only supports 4 partitions per physical 
>>drive giving a 48 Meg limit.  Supra, ICD and BMS all allow up to 14
>                ^^^^
> Actually, it is 64MB (ie. 4 partitions x 16MB each = 64MB). I have such
> system.

True, Atari system software will only allow for four partitions, but other
software (Supra, ICD, Berkeley Microsystems) will allow for up to 12
different drives icons.


Dan