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From: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS - SCSI question
Message-ID: <936@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 89 00:49:42 GMT
References: <[ECLA.USC.EDU]19-Jan-89.09:54:54.BHUBER> <9465@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
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In article <9465@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <[ECLA.USC.EDU]19-Jan-89.09:54:54.BHUBER> BHUBER@ecla.usc.edu writes:
>>Now that GS/OS is out, one of the reported advantages is lifting the 32 MB
>>hard disk limit.
>
>But that advantage won't be realized when you use the existing ProDOS
>file system, for which the 32MB limit is hard-wired into the format.
>GS/OS supports multiple file system types; another may well support
>larger sizes.

If a company was really smart they'd make a SCSI/RLL controller that could
accept SCSI commands and convert it and use a RLL (IBM style) drive on the
apple or maybe just an RLL drive and whip up a the drivers to take full use of
GS/OS and then we could run out and buy 110MB drives for $695!  (w/o fan,
power and cabinent of course)

Open-Apple recently had an issue on buying drives sans anything and building
them so you could use em.  If you try the RLL route tho, it costs as much as
pre-built.  Now if only somebody would recognize this little market nitch...

kareth.