Re: IDE and CF on CFFA

["pilgrimer" <no@no.no>]

:
: The Apple slinky card will patch
: DOS 3.3 and let you use the card
: as a 400KB drive.

>We thought about that, but you'd need
>to incorporate it into the CFFA ROM and
>revise the partitioning code to create
>as many 400K chunks on the CF card as
>you would need/want. It is feasible, but
>would it be practical, being many of the
>DOS 3.3 disks require the disk in place
>and lots of the more desirable software
>disks are protected.

Two thoughts:
First, why not just 1 400k drive or 2 for the slot?  I mean, instead of
shooting for lots of room just shoot for a RAM Drive install and the
resultant speed boost. use the rest of the worlds of room for the
housekeeping?

Second:  Instead of DOS 3.3 why not one of the more specialized DOS subsets
like DavidDOS or the Beagle offerings or??
I know that some of these did some pretty spectacular memory tricks.

Ok a third thought:
  I am not a whiz bang programmer but it seems to me that a system patch
should be loadable.  I am thinking of the pre-boot used for some
peripherals.  uh...Didn't the ProFILE DOS drives require  that for the
setup?  iirc another gadget that slipped my mind also used a preboot to
achieve functionality.

-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck