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Re: Question on ProDOS SmartPort drive remapping



mdj wrote:
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...

I like that approach, too.

-michael

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