Re: DOS 3.3 on hard disk?

[mattack@area.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <5e6f0k$2sm@news.istar.ca>,
Nick Belner <bogus.id@istar.NO-JUNK-MAIL.ca> wrote:
>For various obscure reasons I would like to get DOS 3.3 going
>on a small (20 meg) SCSI hard drive. Information about how to do
>this seems to hard to find; I notice that Nathan Mates has a
>tantalizing hint about it in his FAQ:

Another solution is DOS 3.3 Master from Glen Bredon, the same guy who
wrote ProSEL.  I don't know if he's ever gotten an email address anywhere,
you should be able to find his US Mail address (in Nathan's FAQ?)

DOS 3.3 Master makes a big ProDOS file that "contains" the DOS 3.3 volume,
then you run a special program to switch into DOS 3.3 mode.  Then you
have a whole bunch of 400K volumes, just like on the real hard drives that
natively support(ed) DOS 3.3...   There is a special utility (that works
like FID, I think???) that lets you copy back and forth from ProDOS to the
DOS 3.3 area.

>Nathan also wrote,
>> A far better solution is to use DOS 3.3 Launcher. It lets you copy
>> unprotected DOS 3.3 140K disks to your hard drive, and run DOS 3.3
>> under ProDOS.
>The version I found ran under GSOS, not ProDOS.

I don't know the version number, but there is a second major version
(one would suspect it would be 2.0, but don't quote me on that) that supports
ProDOS 8 as well as the GS.
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