Re: Applicard CP/M partition on CFFA3000?

[Chuck Morris <chuckwmorris@gmail.com>]

On Nov 15, 12:06 am, EricN <ericn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had any success setting up a CP/M partition on the new
> CFFA3000 for the Applicard?  I've been attempting to use the PCPIPro
> and ProPart tools provided by Steve but no success so far.  Here's
> what I'm seeing:
>
> PCPIPro method (from PCPIPro.txt):
> - Everything successful up to -FBOOT then when the system reads in the
> drivers from the recently created boot diskette, the pdoshd driver
> errors on loading and is not able to detect a CP/M hard disk
> partition.
>
> ProPart:
> - Thought perhaps I first needed to use ProPart first to create a CP/M
> partition
> - Run pro/part.com, run through menu settings, then program hangs when
> attempting to write the data blocks to a ProDOS partition not he
> CFFA3000.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.

This may be off target, but I seem to recall that Rich had indicated
that some formatting operations did not work properly, such as
formatting of Pascal volumes.  For simpler problems such as that one,
Ciderpress can provide a solution since it can format a virtual Pascal
volume that can be copied onto a CF or USB stick for use with the
CFFA3000.  If that is the root cause of your problem AND if it is
possible to run the same setup procedure on an emulator to partition a
virtual hard drive, then you should be able to transfer that to the
CFFA3000 as a workaround.  Plenty of "ifs" there, but it might be a
workable solution.