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Re: Applicard CP/M partition on CFFA3000?
A followup on problems with Propartition and the CFFA:
Dave Schmidt was kind enough to run down the road blindfolded and trip over
all the potholes :-) (thanks for the nice report, Dave!) On the basis of his
feedback, some warnings and advice:
0. MOST IMPORTANT: The SHK archived disk image appears corrupted. The KNOWN
BAD file has the following MD5 sum:
d72ba944971797a8a74210ec6ebf3805 PROPART.SHK
I am uploading a Dos-order (DO) disk image to the mail account and the Yahoo
Apple CP/M list. This will the following MD5:
32930d38febc5d7ac69a3ec23dbc2cfb PROPART.DSK
Feel free to contact me off-list if you need a copy.
1. The partition utility does NOT require that the PDOSHD driver be installed!
Further, it DOES NOT work in the presence of the print buffer driver. You
MUST remove that first and re-write DRIVERS and PCPICPM. Then boot from the
updated system before running the partitioner.
2. The opening screen of the partition program asks for a slot number. It
will not let you proceed (nor, unfortunately, exit) unless you give it the
location of a slot having valid block-device firmware. I will fix this when I
have time to permit exit on '0', but for now that's the way it is.
3. If you create a ProDOS volume for the CFFA using CiderPress, do NOT make it
65535 blocks or the partitioner will think there is no room left due to
numeric underflow in the code. Use 65534 as the maximum. I will try to fix
this in the future.
4. The ProDOS volume MUST be formatted for ProDOS in addition to being
created. I can probably detect this in the future, but for now be careful.
5. Please follow my notes carefully with regard to setting device numbers and
number of devices for the various block drivers. Both the stock Apple floppy
driver and the PDOSHD driver default to device "0" (disk A:). They cannot
BOTH by disk A! I suggest assigning A and B to floppy until you are confident
that things are working. That would mean that the Apple floppy driver is set
for Device=0 (default) and NumDevices=2 (default is 6!!). The PDOSHD driver
gets configured for Device=2 (allowing room for 0 and 1) and NumDevices equal
to however many CP/M volumes you created on the CFFA.
Hope this helps folks get going.
Steve