Guillaume Tello wrote:
If anyone is interested I will dig out the manuals and disks and describe it more fully. Perhaps the CFFA firmware could be modified to support this scheme.That really sounds interesting! I also have a CMP/M card and i'd like to use everything from the CFFA, not from the floppies. Cause this is a new type of random access: sometimes it accesses the datas, sometimes not...
If you have a PCPI Applicard (aka MicroPro Starcard), you're in luck. I'm going to release an package of utilities and drivers, under a free license (TBD, but probably GPL) that will support a logical partition on the CFFA for CP/M.
I've been using my CFFA for this since day one. The approach used in the ProPartition utilities (name I sold it under, back in the day) will support Applicard CP/M (or a CardZ180, if you're one of the handful of lucky owners) on absolutely _any_ ProDOS block device.
Tested to date and known to work: A2 ProFile Corvus Omnidisk Sider (all of them) Vulcan CFFA RamFactor Apple II Ram Card (slot 1-7, not AUX slot) Disk 3.5 Unidisk 3.5 and probably many others I've forgotten over the years. See my other posting on the subject in the 'pascal system' thread. Steve