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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: A question about hard disks (300 megabytes or so)...
Message-ID: <37739@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 90 19:00:13 GMT
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes:
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>>Are there any probl;ems with connecting 300 megabyte disks (.vis. 345
>>Maxtor or Imprimis/Wren) to the Macintosh?  Can the Finder actually
>>handle that much space?

Well, the finder seems to have a limit of 32k? blocks. So, if you have a
drive over 60M, your blocksize increases, and you get fragmentation. I think.
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