Re: Hide/Unhide ProDOS 2.0.3 partitions?

["Bruce Rapee" <Bruce.Rapee@att.net>]

Wow, Randy,

    That's too much for me to cope with.  I think I take Daniel's suggestion
about the RamFast card.

Randy Shackelford <shack@southwind.net> wrote in message
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> In article <7te6fb$4ac$1@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>,
> Bruce Rapee <Bruce.Rapee@att.net> wrote:
> >Does anyone know how to hide and unhide a ProDOS v2.0.3 partition?
> >
> >    The tools I have are Chinook SCSI Utilities v1.5 and Prosel's
> >Block.Warden.  Might I need something else?
>
> That's simple with ProDOS 8. You just go to the device driver vector table
> and make the appropriate slot/drive entry point to the no device connected
> routine. That'd take a pair of POKEs in Applesoft.
>
> I wrote code to do that in my homemade system program which runs when I
boot
> ProDOS 8. It's called BOOT.SYSTEM on my disks. I can set it to disconnect
> the 64K RAM disk and 5.25 drives, it lets me select between two startup
apps
> via the option/solid Apple key, and it saves its configuration in the
aux_type
> field of its own file entry. An ingenious bit of work if I say so myself.
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