Re: SOS file system information

[David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Mar 23, 12:08 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> To be honest, the idea is to add a SOS File System Translator for GS/
> OS. Not now, not tomorrow but later. I have so many things to do
> before.
>
> But, SOS disks need to be identified. It can be with a checksum of
> block 0, check some bytes in the volume directory, etc. That's why I
> needed such information.
>
> I'm a little bit lost with block 0 (ProDOS) vs block 1 (SOS) - Let's
> take an example: imagine I own an Apple I!/ and I also have some
> disks. Am I right to say that the boot driver loads block 0 of the
> disk or are there the two blocks (ProDOS and SOS) on such disks?
>
> Thanks for your help again,
> antoine

Hi Antoine-

I'm not sure why you would need a file system translator for GS/OS as
it already recognizes SOS disks just fine.  Would there be some
benefit to knowing it was a SOS disk vs. a ProDOS disk?  Curious minds
want to know,

Dave...