Re: Partitioning & formatting a SCSI

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

"Arkain" <rwking@no.usa.spam.net> writes:
>Where can I go to get programming details, tech docs & the like for the
>Apple II SCSI Card?

I bought the Apple SCSI Card Technical Reference Manual either from A2 Central
or Byteworks. This should be the definitive reference. Just be careful you
get the one for your card and not the one for the later High Speed SCSI Card.

>Assuming the PC partiton table is the same as the Apple II partition table,
>what would happen if I simply created 31 32MB partitions on the drive from
>the PC (with the appropriate type byte)?

Bad assumption - it isn't. You would see nothing on the A2. The Macintosh
however shares the same partition table so if you can plug it into a Mac
and get it to partition it you may be on the right track.

>How many partitions will PRODOS let me see at once?

P8 v2.0.3 will allow 14 volumes online at once. 1 is reserved for /RAM on
128KB machines so P8's limit is 13 (assuming no other disk controllers are
plugged into your A2). The Apple SCSI card has a limit as well but I cannot
remember what it is (and I think it may be smaller than P8's limit).

>Where can I go to get my Apple II SCSI Card upgraded to revision C?

Can you get access to an EPROM programmer? If so, burn a Rev C ROM yourself.
Just find someone nearby with a Rev C SCSI card to get the image from.
I doubt Apple carry that part any more (and the free upgrade period is bound
to have passed).

P.S. In your other message you recommend against using FILER to format SCSI
drives. Apart from the fact that it does not low level format the drive nor
install a partition table, what is wrong with it?
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia