mdavis@hp-sdd.UUCP (Morgan Davis) (06/02/87)
Rick Fincher sez:
> Is there still a 32 MB limit for ProDOS 16 volumes?
At the present, yes. But there is a mechanism installed to handle "guest
filesystems" which allows for variable sized directory entries, larger
bitmaps, more total space, etc. This was required so that a IIGS running
ProDOS 16 could make use of a CD-ROM device which Apple is all hyped about.
Just yesterday I reformatted my 33Mbyte hard disk to provide 65,535 total
blocks in one volume. With a new ROM and formatting software, my drive which
used to emulate a Sider now is treated as a big ProDOS volume, and boots
directly into ProDOS instead of DOS 3.3. The unfortunate aspect is that there
must be nearly a megabyte of extra space on the drive that ProDOS can't access
since it's set into the $FFFF total blocks mode.
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