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From: humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost)
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Subject: Hard Disk Partitioning...
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Date: 15 Mar 89 05:32:23 GMT
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Hello. I just bought a Seagate ST296N hard disk. I'm currently waiting for
my ICD host adapter before I can actually use the drive. I had a few questions
before I got into using the drive.

First, this is a 80meg drive. I have heard that the current versio of TOS
only supports hard drives up to 16meg. I assume that would mean that I
would have to create 5 partitions of my hard disk to use the 80megs. Is there
some work around for this - some program that fixes this problem? (I assume
that TOS 1.4 doesn't have this problem, but then it may be quite some time
before I see that.) Is there something else that I'm missing?

Second, are there any programs that people consider to be vital to have on
their hard disk? I've heard about speedup programs - are they any good?

Third, and lastly, the Mac has a program called Disk Express (and maybe others)
that will attempt to cleanup any file fragmentation on the disk. Is there
any such beastie on the ST?

Thanx for your help.


Mark Frost
	Office of the the Computing Coordinator
	Humanities Division
	University of California at Santa Cruz
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