23 Apr
2005
23 Apr
'05
8:01 p.m.
Sellam wrote:
On 4/23/05, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
ProDOS was made with large capacity disk drives
in mind.
It inherited the SOS
file system design, thus sharing the same 32MB limit. At the time,
5MB and 10MB drives were common, and 20MB drives were starting to
appear. Clearly there wasn't very much headroom.
But don't let this disuade you from putting a fairly large SCSI or IDE
drive on a II[e,c,gs]. The 32MB limit is a per partition (or whatever
the Apple II equivalent is) My IIgs is perfecly happy with a 250MB
SCSI drive divided into 8 (or is it 7) ProDOS and HFS partitions.
Eric