"From a long time MO drive user........me
" :
1. The 230MB drives can handle 230MB disks and 128MB disks
2. I don't know how the 2000xl handles partitions but on the 2000 you can decide how many partitions you want to have. Each partition will be the same size so in the format menu you can create for example partition A-C (3 partitions) on a 230MB (228MB usable) disk. Each partition will be 76MB. Or you create.......wait..........
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For a 230MB drive
Partitions______Letter______Size in MB
01_____________A-A________228
02_____________A-B________114
03_____________A-C________76
04_____________A-D________57
05_____________A-E________45
06_____________A-F________38
07_____________A-G________32
08_____________A-H________28
09_____________A-I_________25
10_____________A-J________22
11_____________A-K________20
12_____________A-L________19
13_____________A-M________17
14_____________A-N________16
15_____________A-O________15
16_____________A-P________14
17_____________A-Q________13
18_____________A-R________12
19_____________A-S________12
20_____________A-T________11
21_____________A-U________10
22_____________A-V________10
peace