Re: SIDER HARD DRIVES I'v

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Nlayton spewed back:

  >4. It has partitions for Prodos, Dos 3.3., CP/M, and Pascal.  But can I
  >just reformat and make everything Prodos???

Darn close...

 NTC| YES! YES!  But you have to replace the ROM chip on the controler
    | card. I have done this with a Siader that I have since sold andit

If you don't mind losing a wee bit, just leave all as it is.  Set the
DOS for the minimum (all the boot stuff will be contained therein), set
the Pascal and CP/M for bare minimum, and give the rest to ProDOS.

*** I cheat on mine.  I have a Sider 10, but I was sent the formatting
disk for the Sider 20.  I just have the bare minimum for DOS, the ProDOS
is set for 9.895 megs, CP/M for minimum, and Pascal has the nonexistant
rest.  What happens is, the drive low-level formats fine, then I hit
Escape when it starts verifying (I have 12 bad blocks so the verifier
aborts the installation if I don't), and it installs the FATs for the
other two systems at the very end of the drive after the ProDOS
partition.  In other words, I gain *half a meg* of ProDOS partition by
assigning the other two OS's drive space which physically doesn't exist.

 NTC| I believe it called SASI... for whatever that stands for.

Don't know, but it is SASI, a partial set of SCSI (which is why the
RamFast SCSI card will work with a Sider, otherwise you wind up using
something dedicated like a Xebec SASI card).

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