alexd@milton.u.washington.edu (Alex Danilchik) (04/14/91)
Can TOS look at 1.2 gigs? which host will work with 1.2 gig micropolis? I need mass storage for digital/sound editing... thanks cheers! gunnar alexd@milton.u.washington.edu
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (04/14/91)
In article <1991Apr13.183648.5635@milton.u.washington.edu> alexd@milton.u.washington.edu (Alex Danilchik) writes: >Can TOS look at 1.2 gigs? which host will work with >1.2 gig micropolis? > >I need mass storage for digital/sound editing... > The March 1991 issue of ST Informer describes how to connect a 1.2 gigabyte Micropolis Model 1598-15 hard drive to an ST. Make sure your host adapter and driver will work with whatever drive you have. In any case, regarding TOS, the article says, "I knew that the I wanted the first partition to be 16 megabytes. That's the largest that a boot partition can be on a TOS 1.0 system like mine. Boot partitions on systems with TOS 1.4 and later versions can have 32-megabyte partitions. "For the remaining disk capacity, I elected to be symmetric and specified four maximum-sized (256-magabyte) BGM partitions." BTW, he was using ICD's utilities with ICD host adapter. -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr13.211112.11899@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: > "For the remaining disk capacity, I elected to be symmetric and specified >four maximum-sized (256-magabyte) BGM partitions." What is a BGM partition? Can it only be used with >= TOS1.4? Does the TT have the same 32MB partition limit? > >BTW, he was using ICD's utilities with ICD host adapter. >-- > Ed Krimen ............................................... > ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico > ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 > / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0 -Mike
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (04/19/91)
In article <16682@chaph.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes: >In article <1991Apr13.211112.11899@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: > >> "For the remaining disk capacity, I elected to be symmetric and specified >>four maximum-sized (256-magabyte) BGM partitions." > > What is a BGM partition? Can it only be used with >= TOS1.4? Does the >TT have the same 32MB partition limit? > >> >>BTW, he was using ICD's utilities with ICD host adapter. BGM stands for Big GeM; at least that what one reference called it. I think can only be used with TOS 1.4. It sets the sectors (correct term?) to anything higher than 512 bytes. You can go up to 2048 I believe. -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) (04/19/91)
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: >BGM stands for Big GeM; at least that what one reference called it. I think >can only be used with TOS 1.4. It sets the sectors (correct term?) to anything >higher than 512 bytes. You can go up to 2048 I believe. BGM partitions can be used with any TOS version. They use bigger _logical_ sectors; physical sector size remains the same. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Claus Brod@wue.maus.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------