Re: Did anybody ever use a "Pascal Area" on a ProFile hard disk?

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian) writes:
>In article <1f7frvu.192e43u1t25qwwN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>,
>David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>>There isn't much point trying to use it with a hard drive, because the
>>Pascal file system doesn't support subdirectories, has a fixed limit of
>>about 70 files per volume, and requires files to be stored contiguously
>>(requiring a "crunch" operation to combine free space).
>>
>>It wouldn't support more than two partitions on a SCSI hard drive, so
>>even a 20 MB hard drive would be difficult to fill.
>>

>I'll give David credit on this one for being "Apple Correct", but in the
>spirit of "Apple II" - anything is doable.  

I also have used large hard drives with Pascal 1.3. My Cirtech SCSI cards,
while being less flexible in partitioning ProDOS than Apple cards (they just
have multiple 32MB partitions) is more flexible with Pascal, DOS and CP/M.
You can have multiple partitions inside ProDOS partitions and even span
them across multiple partitions on one drive. I don't have the manuals
to hand so cannot explain it in detail. The Cirtech cards also allow one
or more hard drives to be shared between multiple Apple // systems (usually
with a selector program that gives each Apple its own partition to work in).
--
David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia