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Re: Applicard CP/M partition on CFFA3000?



On 12/02/2011 10:57 AM, GordT wrote:
On Nov 19, 8:30 am, Steven Hirsch<snhir...@gmail.com>  wrote:
On 11/18/2011 08:48 PM, David Schmidt wrote:

On 11/18/2011 4:36 PM, EricN wrote:
Alas, All I have are 5.25 Disk II's. Bummer that I sold my SCSI card
and hard drive last year. I could have probably just imported that
image and dropped it onto the CFFA card.

Right - once we get a good image or two, we'll never need to go through this
low-level "formatting" again...

The partitioning program does not do any low-level (physical) formatting.
It's just using ProDOS block calls for read and write.  That's what makes a
hang so mysterious.

I've been trying to get it working on my //e with an Applicard and a
CFFA v1.4 - PRO/PART.COM hangs immediately after running it, no
messages at all. It looks like it accesses B:, then nothing.
Considering I appear to have gotten the boot disk configured to look
for a partition and this is the last step, a bit frustrating! Any
chance of getting source for PRO/PART so we can trace where it's
hanging?

I thought I released the sources... There's certainly no reason not to, but I warn you that setting up a build environment will be challenging. It's written in Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M Z80 and also requires, IIRC, the SLR assembler and linker. Oh, you'll also need the PCPI OEM development kit and a good working knowledge of all the above tools.

I have been hammered with work and family obligations for the past several weeks, but this weekend I'm planning to set up for test and debugging. I'm almost 99% sure I've used Pro-Part on a CFFA in the past, FWIW.

Steve