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- From: wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
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- Subject: Re: ICD and partition types : HELP please
- References: Re: ICD and partition types : HELP please
- Reply-To: wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:09:04 MET
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- In <1992Jul20.183226.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>, dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
- > In the ICD hard disk formatter, it asks for partition types. The manual hints
- > that type other than GEM and BGM are possible, but it says nothing about what
- > the other options are. Does anybody know what types of partitions are
- > allowable? I want to set up partitions (large ones) for DOS and Spectre.
- > What types of partitions should I specify for these? Any info would be
- > appreciated. Thanks.
- >
- > P.S. large = >32 meg, i.e. GEM doesn't cut it. Spectre seems to work fine
- > on a BGM partition, but DOS doesn't seem to like it. Is BGM acceptable for
- > either of these operating systems, or will it cause problems?
-
- You can make a Spectre partition as large as you want, preformat it as BGM
- and than convert it into HFS. This does not belong to your GEM driver
- software, e.g. if you're using ICD or AHDI or what else. The format identifier
- of the Spectre partition then is "OOP".
- Concerning DOS partitions, my first idea is the DOS version you are
- using. Be sure to use 4.01 or later, I remember there were problems
- formatting large partitions with former DOS versions.
-
- Regards,
- Markus.
-
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