Re: Ramfast Card (rom versions)

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <l945234@pro-scat.cts.com>, Loren Damewood writes... 
> 
> Well, I recall having been able to write extra tracks on a 5.25 floppy,
> with ProSel-8 and a patched ProDOS, so it might not be as unlikely a
> situation as all that.

    According to Drew at CVTech, the extra space needed to bring the
floptical's capacity to 20480K must have come from the disk's "scrap
space".  SCSI devices reserve a certain amount of disk blocks for use
when it detects a bad block elsewhere on the volume.  When one is found,
it is marked as bad and remapped to a spare block.  All this is done
transparently to the user.  So to be same, I should low-level format the
floptical (but that takes over 20 minutes).
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