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From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: partitions
Message-ID: <10141@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 90 02:39:45 GMT
References: <8780.infoapple.net@pro-generic> <37566@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <37566@apple.Apple.COM> farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
>
>	The 32Mb volume size is a limitation of ProDOS, and is also
>	a limitation of the ProDOS FST under GS/OS.  GS/OS is not
>	limited to 32Mb, however.  The High Sierra/ISO 9660 FST
>	can read up to 699Mb.

Well then, could someone format a 100M drive in the High Sierra/ISO 9660 format
and use the entire drive as a single volume?  Or does the HS/ISO FST assume
that all such drives are read-only.  It would be nice if the FST queried the
drive to see if it is writable, and then a normal hard disk could be used with
this format.

I wouldn't mind it if a custom format program were needed to create the volume,
as long as writes could be supported to a formatted volume on a writable drive.

Brian Willoughby
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