Re: Focus Drive //e woes

[wkatz@nyx.net (William Katz)]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> William Katz wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, I can not believe it!!!!
>>> After attaching the drive (ibm dha-2270) to my PC, it recognized it in 
>>> the bios, and I booted into Windows XP.  I downloaded CiderPress 
>>> v2.4.5 and OMG!!  It recognized the physical drive as being a 
>>> FocusDrive and read in all 6 Focus partitions!  Turns out I don't have 
>>> any data on partitions 3, 4, 5, or 6.. but still, I can retrieve all 
>>> the data from the drive!!
>
> As I thought further about this, I realized that if CiderPress can
> make sense of the drive, then there's a pretty good chance that the
> partition table is *almost* correct, but not "correct enough" to
> satisfy the Focus card.
>
> This strongly argues for just a couple of "signature" bytes being
> wrong.
>
> Is the Focus partition table format online anywhere?
>
> -michael

Maybe if Andy McFadden is watching, he could add this to the requested 
features list?

- the ability to partition a physical drive attached to the pc in 'Focus 
Drive' format.
- the ability to format the newly formed partitions in 'Focus Drive' 
format

This would replace the need to having a real //gs and the FocusUtility?

hmmm, thinking about it now... are there any //gs emulators for WinXP that 
support physical hard drives attached to your WinXP computer?
If there are, then I can run the FocusUtility in the //gs emulator and 
woof!... that would give me a working Focus Drive that i can put back on 
my Focus Card in my real //e


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William D. Katz "a good skier"

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