Re: Using 3.5" IDE drive with AIIe

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

My Apple II+ is sitting here networked to a Corvus Omninet 20 MB HDD.  The
drive itself is an IMI brand full height MFM drive divided into two 10 MB
logical drives, each of which is seen by the Apple II as a drive with 62
volumes.

So, you (for example) catalog Volume 55 on the first logical drive by typing

CATALOG,S6,D1,V55

The Corvus boots from D1,V1, and runs a HELLO program which can be edited to
start up a menu, e.g., to access programs on other drives.

I am not exactly sure where the HELLO program resides.  It doesn't appear on
the CATALOG listing of D1,V1, and the drive light doesn't flicker when you
save it, so I speculate it is in some non-volatile RAM somewhere on the
controller.

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org> wrote in message
975105027.764470@chakotay.ncc74656.org">news:975105027.764470@chakotay.ncc74656.org...

> >When the 5 MByte Corvus harddisks first appeared, it was usually
> >partitioned into zillions of Apple DOS partitions, each 140 KBytes large,
> >to mimic an Apple II DOS floppy -- that partitioning was certianly
obtained
> >in a way incompatible with the partitioning of most IDE harddisks today.
>
> I can't say I've ever seen one of those, but I saw a hard drive hooked
into
> a CoCo about 16 or 17 years ago that divvied up the drive into a bunch of
> tiny, floppy-sized partitions.