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From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: A question about hard disks (300 megabytes or so)...
Message-ID: <25A8E4C0.6965@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 90 19:06:38 GMT
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jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes:


>Are there any probl;ems with connecting 300 megabyte disks (.vis. 345
>Maxtor or Imprimis/Wren) to the Macintosh?  

No problems, especially with the wonderful Imprimis drives.


>Can the Finder actually handle that much space?  

Basically, "no".


>Do I need to do anything funny with
>partitioning the disk or can it be just one big partition.  

You can use it as one big volume if you run the Desktop Manager INIT
that comes with AppleShare. This, unfortunatly, has some undesirable
side effects, such as some documents not being able to find their 
applications. The reason the Finder has problems with large disk is
because of the way the desktop file is maintained. Partitioning
works pretty well...


>What if I do partition the disk?  Can the Finder open each parititon as a
>seperate volume?

I have installed several larger Imprimis drives from MicroNet and their
disk installation software has partitioning built in. Works pretty well.
On my personal 173 MB disk, I have 4 equal size partitions for 

  System
  Applications
  Development
  Scratch

It just turns out that each partition fits perfectly on a SyQuest 
cartridge for backups. Each partition looks like a seperate disk.
The only negative is plodding through SFGetFile & PutFile dialogs
to get at the disk you want.


>I'm looking for a new (big) disk for my new machine.  Can the IIx
>power supply handle the power requirements of big disks like this?

No sweat.

>Even with let's say 3-4 Nubus boards installed along side?

Works for me...

  --scott

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Scott Truesdell