Re: Apple II CFFA

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

>> John Woodall <lenny15@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>news:<bcv8nk$or7$1@slb9.atl.mindspring.net>...
>> > I just received one of these boards from Rich Dreher and it is
>fantastic.
>> > Forget those IDE and Focus cards! Compact flash is the deal! I am in no
>way
>> > associated with Mr. Dreher....but at ONLY $105 each...this is a real
>buy!
>> > Get one!
>> > http://dreher.net/CFforAppleII/
>> > He deserves a lot of credit for makiing these cards available.
>>
>>     One flaw that I hope to do something about is that the partitions
>> the card creates on Compact Flash cards aren't Apple standard.
>
>What is ill-standard about them, Mine are fine.

He means that they are not described by a partition table at the
beginning of the physical volume, and so cannot be mounted by
anything but the CFFA card.

This would not be easy to change, since partition mapping is
currently hard-wired on the card, and using a table would require
RAM on the card (unless, of course, the partition table was just
a formality, a constant describing the hard-wired partitions).

-michael

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