max@maxsun.lgc.com (Max Heffler) (07/28/90)
i am planning on partitioning a 760M Maxtor SCSI hard disk this weekend and would appreciate any info on optimal partitioning. Is it true that prodos-8 can only see the first 4 partitions and which utilities do i use, thise from 5.0.2 tools or the High-speed SCSI utilities, which are only prodos-8. Will I be able to use all 760M? Do i have to make each paritition 32M or is this only a prodos-8 limitation? Thanx in advance... -- Max Heffler internet: max@lgc.com Landmark Graphics Corp. uucp: ..!uunet!lgc!max 333 Cypress Run, Suite 100 phone: (713) 579-4751 Houston, Texas 77094
dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) (07/28/90)
In article <1990Jul27.193657.3376@lgc.com> max@maxsun.lgc.com (Max Heffler) writes: >i am planning on partitioning a 760M Maxtor SCSI hard disk this weekend >and would appreciate any info on optimal partitioning. Is it true that >prodos-8 can only see the first 4 partitions and which utilities do i >use, thise from 5.0.2 tools or the High-speed SCSI utilities, which are >only prodos-8. Will I be able to use all 760M? Do i have to make each >paritition 32M or is this only a prodos-8 limitation? >Thanx in advance... The Advanced Disk Utility will be happy to let you create partitions larger than 32 Megs, but when you initialize them into volumes, each ProDOS volume will use only the first 32 Megs of its partition. The SCSI Manager will let you have up to 63 total SCSI partitions without difficulty (except maybe the problem of where to put them all on the Finder desktop, etc). But that's okay...you should only need 24 anyway. :-) Yes, ProDOS 8 will be able to see only the first four partitions if you put the SCSI card in slot 5, and only the first TWO if you put the card in a non-five slot. -- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems Apple II Developer Technical Support | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
nick@tanus.oz.au (Nick Giapitzakis) (07/28/90)
Tell me if you manage to access the whole 760meg,..thanks.
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