Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!ucbvax!TEMPLEVM.BITNET!V2071A From: V2071A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET ("George A. Piotrowski") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Prodos Limitation Message-ID: <8905081049.aa01643@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 8 May 89 14:25:08 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 > 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.) > > Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet > Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Alan, Did you try partitioning your hard drive with the Advanced disk Utilities. Since ProDOS can only format up to 30 megs per volume, this is usually the alternate. I don't have a hard drive myself, but everything I have read about the bigger drives say you have to partition them into 2 or more volumes. Your message doesn't state whether you have tried this or not. Good Luck! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ George A. Piotrowski The Opinions expressed are my own and do not Bitnet: V2071A@TEMPLEVM have anything to do with Genie: G.PIOTROWSKI Temple University. Compuserve: 74046,1304 (Well, not much) ------------------------------------------------------------------------