Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!TEMPLEVM.BITNET!V2071A From: V2071A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET ("George A. Piotrowski Jr.") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Storage Size Limits for Apple OS's Message-ID: <8908090111.aa21611@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 9 Aug 89 04:43:25 GMT References:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 71 > In article <4111@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> digitalfiend@vax1.acs.udel.EDU > (Scott D Palmer) writes: > >>Is there any maximum storage size limits for either GSOS or ProDOS 8 ? >>I'm considering building my own HD and I was wondering if it was worth >>getting an 84 meg HD. I'd be using Apple's SCSI card (revision C). >>Thanks for any help. > All ProDOS volumes (which are the only writable file > systems under GS/OS) are limited to 32Mb in size. Each > file on a ProDOS volume is limited to 16Mb. > You can, however, partition your hard drive into > segments <= 32Mb. >Cary Farrier To answer Scott's question about large HD's. I have recently purchased the Seagate ST-296-N 85 Meg SCSI drive and an A-Hive case from Tulin. Here are some of my observations: As mentioned in previous messages, the power switch on the case is pretty lame. I have an engineering student on my staff who says he can mount a good switch on the back of the drive. I used the hard disk low level format program that is on Apple2-l. I then set up 3 partitions with the Advanced Disk Utility. The first 2 are equal sections of 32M each (the max of ProDOS). The last partition used up the final 17M-18M on the drive. All works fine except that the last partition can only be accessed by GSOS applications. When I go to ProDOS8, I only get the first 2 partitions mapped in drive 1 and 2. Here is a list of the Hardware I have and where it is in my GS: Slot 1 Printer Port Slot 2 Apple // SCSI Card Setting is Your Card (I have Mini-8 switch box on this port with: A - Appletalk box in Appletalk Network to LaserWriter+, B - Zoom Modem 2400) Slot 3-6 Normal Default Settings Slot 7 Built-in Appletalk. (I have mentioned in an earlier message that when I use the modem in Proterm 2.1 after booting GSOS 3.0, I get junk like there is a lot of line noise. If I set slot 7 to Your Card, it works fine. Also, I don't have to make this change if I boot directly to ProDOS8 instead of GSOS.) I do have one question. I'm having problems printing to the LaserWriter Plus from Appleworks GS. Sometimes I will get 1 page, other times I will get a few pages, then the program stops and says it can't print the document. I know this is happening in the Word Processor. I haven't really tried it in other programs yet. I do have a lot of Mac traffic on the network (not AppleShare) but even when there is no Macs printing, I still have the Problem. Any comments??? Bye for now, ________________________________________________________________________ George A. Piotrowski Bitnet: V2071A@TEMPLEVM Coordinator, Educational Computing Cntr Genie: G.PIOTROWSKI Temple University CompuServe: 74046,1304 Philadelphia, PA 19122 (215) 787-6228 The opinions expressed are my own and do not have anything to do with Temple University. (well, not much) ________________________________________________________________________