Re: Using CiderPress to copy a volume image to a card formatted for Windows...

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

fadden <fadden@android.com> wrote:
> On Feb 13, 5:35 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>> You mean that Ciderpress doesn't do raw I/Os to the card, obliterating
>> the PC partition map?  That would be strange...
> 
> CiderPress operates at the lowest level allowed by the OS.  On Win2K
> and later, it can view (and overwrite) the partition map.  (On Win98
> you could only write to "logical" volumes unless you built some 16-bit
> thunk code.)
> 
> You said "load from file" was not available.  Was "copy to file"?

Yes.  In fact, after I selected the displayed "MSDOS" partition, both
options were available. 

> One thing that makes me curious is that the CFFA would take an
> interest in the contents of the card.  There is no "CFFA partition
> format", which is part of what makes identifying CFFA volumes so much
> fun.

That was my assumption, as well.  And it's why I'm now concerned about the
compatibility of my adapter with the CFFA, independent of the card's
content.

> You should be able to make a file full of zeroes whose size matches
> the original volume and just stomp on the whole thing.

I stomped it pretty well with 128KB of ProDOS partitions!

I have yet to try clobbering the partition map first.  Maybe that will
work...

-michael  -  NadaNet 3.1:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon