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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
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> 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,
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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)
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