Re: Question on ProDOS SmartPort drive remapping

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Dec 9, 6:13 pm, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 5:28 pm, demp...@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
>
> > Watch out for the 7 volume limit on the original Apple SCSI card. You
> > might run into problems with the 110 volume limit on the High-Speed card
> > if you have a 1 GBish drive and 800 KB partitions.
>
> I worked out the ideal platform to test my code on. Kegs running on
> Linux with 10+ drives in slot 7, 2 drives in slot 6 and 2 drives in
> slot 5. It fills out the drive table with $FD08 vectors quite nicely.
>
> Should the drive re-mapper program be:
>
> 1) A ProDOS system program requiring you to exit what you are doing
> before running it.
> 2) A Binary program you can run from BASIC.SYSTEM
> 3) An Applesoft program with some 6502 code to read the Language card.

I don't see the value in 3), but it can be both 1) and 2) ...

It would be useful if it could read a parameter list from the input
buffer so that it can integrate with ProSEL, etc.

Users of esoteric shell environments could easily customise it to
accept parameter lists from said environment...

Matt