Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis
From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC Setup partitionning
Message-ID: <2084@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 89 02:10:27 GMT
References: <892@cnetlu.UUCP> <12994@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1847@ccnysci.UUCP> <30867@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <30867@apple.Apple.COM> phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone) writes:
>In article <1847@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>>The reason for the Apple_Free partition is to accomodate the differences in
>>formatted size between different HD20s. The argument goes, if your drive has
>>no defects, and then it dies, if it's very very full you won't be able to
>>restore the backups onto another drive which does have some defects.
>
>No, that it not what that was designed for (I'm one of the designers). It
>was to have unallocated partitions.

Someone else from Apple has already said that this was basically correct
(it had to do with different manufacturers' drive sizes, not defects, though).
But I suppose one thing can fulfill two needs. The question now is, why is
there a need to have unallocated partitions?

Thanks...
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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)