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From: nakata@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Lance Nakata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: A question about hard disks (300 megabytes or so)...
Message-ID: <6985@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 90 00:53:11 GMT
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Sender: nakata@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Lance Nakata)
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In article <10310@zodiac.ADS.COM> 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?  Can the Finder actually
>handle that much space?  Do I need to do anything funny with
>partitioning the disk or can it be just one big partition.  What if I
>do partition the disk?  Can the Finder open each parititon as a
>seperate volume?

I'd also like to know the answers to these questions.  In particular,
a user on campus has a 300MB FWB hard disk hooked up to a 5MB RAM
SE/30.  He used the enclosed HD Partition program to make 7 (yes,
seven) partitions, but Finder (no MultiFinder running) will not mount
all of them.  The error is something like "not enough Finder memory to
work with disk _____ (some partition name)."  I've seen this error
before long ago, but can't remember how we got rid of it.

Is this a problem with the number of partitions, or a Finder
limitation?  I believe he's running with the System 6.0.3 or 6.0.4
release, if that matters.  All he's trying to do is make the disk into
an AppleShare 2.0.1 server.

Please send me direct email if possible.  I'll summarize.

Lance Nakata  Stanford University
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