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Article #34867Re: Hard Disk limitations
From: Chuck McManis
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1988 20:01
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1988 20:01
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In article Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM writes:
>Someone recently mentioned a 300MB hard disk was available for the ST,
>but I was told that an ST could only access 195MB on a hard disk.
>
>Can anyone comment?
Well not really. The original 68K GEM inherited the 32Mb hard disk partition
limit from MS-DOS, there was also a sixteen partition limit once but I
believe that it is now 26 (A-Z). So leaving A,B,C for the floppies and
the cartridge a simple 32 * 23 calculation yields 736Mb, if it is 16
then you would only get 416Mb. Both numbers being larger than the 195
you mention.
--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Hard Disk limitations Message-ID: <76253@sun.uucp> Date: 4 Nov 88 20:01:05 GMT References: <881104030315.414923@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 17