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From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Prodos Limitations
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Date: 10 May 89 05:31:05 GMT
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  Several people have responded to my inquiry about why I haven't been
able to use more than 40 megs out of my 45 meg hard drive.  Thanks.
  The answer seems to be that apparently GS/OS insists on a relatively
round number of megs when it formats a hard drive.  The low level format
seems to leave between 41 and 42 megs out of the 45, and then the high
level format rounds things off to 40 megs.
  I guess I can live with that.

  Someone else had a question about high capacity hard drives under
Prodos 8.  My understanding was that Prodos 8 will only recognize
two SCSI devices per card.  At 32 Megs apiece, that would mean that
an uncustomized version of Prodos 8 will only use up to 64 Megs.


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