Re: Focus card

[Delfs <eeastman@gmail.com>]

On Jul 5, 11:06 pm, mojoehand <mojoeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What good/bad points can you tell me about this card?

I love mine, (I do have several and many media cards) it is simply
plug and play.  I have never had a CF card not work, including the SD
media adapter, it sees the memory available and partitions it.  Its
fast, quite and so far bullet proof.  My oldest one is 8-10 years now,
I started with the laptop drives my first one came with a 20M drive
mechanism.  I moved ot CF cards when they were expensive and small.
My first one was adapted form a 16M card

I tend to partition mine with the first two, full 32M ProDOS
partitionsa giving me 64M of storage. After that I tend to make
smaller partitions for specific software with volume names so the
software will work. (Like a /COPYIIPLUS partition).  Much of the time
I ignore the rest of the space.  It just seems easier than having it
all in one place at one time.  I'm used to swapping floppies for each
program anyway, and the boot time is so close to zero-wait. :)  Or
maybe I'm just too lazy to build a menu program.  ;)

So 30 partitions * 32M = 960M, I have found it useful to keep a bunch
of memory cards around with the different software on them.  I have a
couple of games disks, a couple of productivity, and one for
utilities. I have come to avoid the HFS partition, its not as useful
as one would think, so much of the IIgs software, even GS/OS, requires
a ProDOS partition to run.

Some general recommendations... Get Ciderpress of you run a Microsoft
OS on your PC.  Use a card of 128M or larger so you can get at least 2
full 32M partitions.  Memory is cheap, get more cards.  Use partitions
that are full 32M ProDOS only, do not let the firmware set your
partitions sizes the same, you will have much better luck backing up
and running software.  Having partitions the same size facilitates
backup and image making and even moving things around.  (Plug for
Ciderpress again if you use Windows.)  Email the partition images and
ciderpress to yourself using gmail and you will have a backup
everywhere you go.  :)