Re: USCD Pascal on a CFFA drive

[Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu>]

On Apr 7, 10:10 am, Wulf <app...@die-kempers.de> wrote:
> On Apr 7, 9:45 am, Wulf <app...@die-kempers.de> wrote:> However not more than 18 partitions could be open at the same time
> > (Device slot #12-#20) but this should be just an academical limitation
> > as you could have 18*77 ~ 1400 files available.
>
> Correction:
> it has to be #13 - #20 which equals to 7*77 ~ 500 files. (Never rush
> these things by squeezing them between two work tasks )
>
> Still plenty of files to be accessible at the same time.
>
> But this is all future, right now I want to have two partitions on my
> CF card both 800 blocks.
> After that I will move from there.

Wulf, what you are suggesting is entirely feasible for harddrives, and
maybe the CF card.  I did this several years ago when I used a FCP
Sider harddrive.  Made an attached driver for units 13-20 which mapped
blockoffsets to files(volume images) on units 4,5,9,10,11,12.  Worked
real well for my purposes.  Big caveat is not to Krunch a unit 4..12
while a unit 13..20 was mapped to a file on it.  My sider is dead but
I may have a diskette with the drivers and mounting pgm on it.  I'll
look for it this weekend.  I don't know where to post it for you to
look at but I could email an attachment.  (Google hides full email
address so you'd have to email me a real address.  Mine is <steven-
nelson at uiowa.edu>.)

  --Steve