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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Prodos Limitations
Message-ID: <30426@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 May 89 16:09:35 GMT
References: <8905100033.aa06016@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8905100033.aa06016@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) writes:
>
>  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.

	As I said in my post before, GS/OS is not the limitation. The
	limitation is inherent in the old ProDOS filing system.  ProDOS
	can only format a volume up to 32Mb.  Therefore if you want to use
	your entire drive, partition it.

Cary Farrier