Using 3.5" drives with CP/M.....

[leahy@auric.nric.gov.au (Steve Leahy)]

G'day.
 
	Applied Engineering distributed a program with CP/AM 4.0 (bundled with 
my //c Z-Ram) which patched the BIOS, enabling it to use the RAM as one large c: 
drive; I tried this on my //e under CP/M 2.2x (running on a Microsoft softcard 
and using an AE Ramworks III as the ramcard) and it worked no problems.  

	 Is there a similar BIOS patch which enables CP/M 2.2x to recognise
3.5" drives, especially the 1.4Mb drives?  I need to build a large database,
and dBase II under CP/M is far more powerful than Appleworks 1.1; it does chew
up disc space, however.  Any ideas (and please, no stupid remarks about using
either a messy-dos machine [running dBase IV] or a Mac, or about upgrading
to Appleworks 3)?

Thanks

 
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