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Re: 16 meg partition limit

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From: Timothy E. Onders
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 20:25
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In article <20465@watdragon.waterloo.edu> swklassen@tiger.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen) writes:
>
>mentioned the 16 meg limit, however, the utilities which came 
>with it allowed me to make larger partitions.  I decided to experiment

Those would be HDX 3.0. HDX 3.0 allows partitions up to 1 GBy (that's
1024 MB in case you didn't know.), It also allows more partitions per
physical drive.

>partitions?  Did some of the later versions of the driver program
>allow for larger partitions, patching TOS appropriately?  Did I

See above.

>to be unreliable for long term use?  I am being sure to back
>everything up on occasion (usually every 4 months unless I add
>something significant to the drive in which case I back it up
>immediately following the installation) just in case.  (Actually
>I would do this anyway.)

The only problem, however, is that many disk utility programs, such
as DL II, and TuneUp(i think), don't know how to handle the larger
partitions. Make sure you find out if a utilities package can handle
the big partitions before you fork() out $$$$ for it. You might not
get your money back.

					-Tim Onders
					brazil@pawl.rpi.edu
					70135.563@CompuServe.COM
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From: brazil@pawl.rpi.edu (Timothy E. Onders)
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Subject: Re: 16 meg partition limit
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Date: 2 Feb 90 20:25:10 GMT
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