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From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Prodos Limitation
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Date: 8 May 89 12:52:14 GMT
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  After suffering with only 40 megabytes on my hard disk for months, I
decided to bite the bullet, back up my hard disk completely and try to
figure out why I was only getting use of 40 megabytes rather than the
entire capacity, which is closer to 41 megabytes (wow, what a difference).
  Following the advise I've received on this board, I did another low
level format and, checking with the formatting program from A2-Central,
found that I had 82028 blocks, or roughly 41.014 megs.  When I booted
GS/OS, I got a message that the device was unformatted (meaning no high
level format), so I tried formatting it then and got the telling message
that "the file system won't use the entire capacity of the drive" (not the
exact wording, but close), and it only formatted it for 40 Megs.
  I tried another low level format and then a high level format through
Advanced Disk Utilities, with the same result.
  How have others managed to get more than 40 megs formatted?
  Would another low level format, followed by a high level format with
Copy II Plus do it?  (I wouldn't think so, since Copy II Plus is a
Prodos 8 application.)


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