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compu_85:
The Signal newsletter's reviews of the Data Tower make it sound like it presents to the OS as one big volume, which can be picked from the Startup From menu:

http://www.macmothership.com/lisacontent/signal/Signal16_September1984.html
We quickly installed a 3.0 Office System on the new disk, and we were off and running. Now Attributes shows 142,420 blocks for our disk device.

http://www.macmothership.com/lisacontent/signal/Signal18_November1984.html
7/7 supports an enormous number of files, so that the entire disk can easily be put to use. At one point in our testing, we loaded the DataTower with 4,735 documents and folders occupying almost 70 megabtyes of disk.
Unlike Mac's Finder, which begins to thrash when even fewer than 100 files have accumulated, 7/7 (and even the 3.0 Workshop!) took the load in stride, performing opens and saves as quickly as when the disk is empty.

Having the parallel track (no pun intended!!) of modifying the LOS disk driver to support an IDEFile-16 or IDEFile-32 would be sweet!

-J

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