Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-europa.cts.com!samt From: samt@pro-europa.cts.com (Sam Theis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Storage Size Limits for Apple OS's Message-ID: <8908121404.AA19486@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 11 Aug 89 13:18:37 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 Comment to message from: rochester!rit!ultb!lmb7421@rutgers.edu (L.M. Barstow) Les Barstow writes: > Now for a question: Is there any reason why a hard drive couldn't be > formatted in High Sierra/ISO 9660 format from GS/OS? Does the code to > write to a disk exist? Or is High Sierra for the GS limited to CD-ROM > only? Even if the write capability would be available for the HS format, would you really want to convert a disk to that format? If you would convert a hard disk to HS format, then you could only access the disk from GSOS. All of your ProDOS 8 and earlier ProDOS 16 applications would be locked out from your hard disk. Sounds a little less than useful to me. Sam ---- UUCP: {nosc, uunet!cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun.com} ...!crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!SamT ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!SamT@nosc.mil INET: SamT@pro-europa.cts.com - BITNET: pro-europa.uucp!SamT@psuvax1