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[Eric J Korpela]

> Sellam wrote:
> > ProDOS was made with large capacity disk drives in mind.
>
On 4/23/05, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
>                                                                          It inherited the SOS
> file system design, thus sharing the same 32MB limit.  At the time,
> 5MB and 10MB drives were common, and 20MB drives were starting to
> appear.  Clearly there wasn't very much headroom.

But don't let this disuade you from putting a fairly large SCSI or IDE
drive on a II[e,c,gs].  The 32MB limit is a per partition (or whatever
the Apple II equivalent is)  My IIgs is perfecly happy with a 250MB
SCSI drive divided into 8 (or is it 7) ProDOS and HFS partitions.

Eric