Re: Ramfast Card (rom versions)

[lorend@pro-scat.cts.com (Loren Damewood)]

In <2e3tb2$56l@ionews.io.org> taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:

>    I was playing with the RamFAST's "Backup to HD" option yesterday and
>stumbled upon something.  I was trying to backup my 20480K boot
>partition onto a floptical.  At first, I didn't think it would work, but
>I tried it anyway.  After the backup, the RamFAST had reported 11 errors
>total, but an otherwise complete backup.  Satisfied that the option
>actually does work with a floptical, I erase it.  To my surprise, both
>the Finder and the RamFAST utility offered me a 20-megabyte partition
>(exactly 20480K, not 19.8 megabytes).  This seemed a little unlikely,
>but I proceeded anyway and then did a block verify with the Finder.  All
>40960 blocks verified without error.  I would have thought that the ones
>past the 19.8-meg limit would have given an error.  So it *appears* that
>I have a full 20 megabytes on one floptical.
>-- 


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. You say you verified the extra blocks, did you
actually try filling the disk up to the last byte and then read from the
data in them? I know verifying should do that, but I'm a belt and
suspenders sort of guy.   ;-)

Loren