Re: Apple II still ahead of the curve!

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

I don't believe it.  The Focus card is 100% smartport compatible and
allows something like 32+ partitions under GSOS, ProDOS or otherwise,
with no onboard RAM that I know of.

- Paul

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Rich has explained that only "hardwired" partitioning schemes are
> implemented on the CFFA because the card would have to have a RAM
> buffer to hold a partition table read from disk.
>
> SCSI and IDE controller cards for the Apple do have RAM on board,
> but the CFFA does not.  In principle, the RAM could be allocated
> from Apple memory, but there are no "reserved" areas that would
> be safe for doing so (and you don't want your partition table to
> get changed!).
> 
> -michael