Re: Apple II CFFA

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

> >>     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).

Oh, ok. I thought he was referring to the size of the partitions.
I don't particularly like the hard-wired table either, but then again,
it was very easy to set it up. ;-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
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Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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