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Article #45164Re: A question about hard disks (300 megabytes or so)...
From: Allen J. Baum
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 19:00
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 19:00
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>jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes:
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>>Are there any probl;ems with connecting 300 megabyte disks (.vis. 345
>>Maxtor or Imprimis/Wren) to the Macintosh? Can the Finder actually
>>handle that much space?
Well, the finder seems to have a limit of 32k? blocks. So, if you have a
drive over 60M, your blocksize increases, and you get fragmentation. I think.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!usc!apple!baum From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: A question about hard disks (300 megabytes or so)... Message-ID: <37739@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 10 Jan 90 19:00:13 GMT Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 12