"schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message 4206feb3-2577-44c2-88b4-f84d575b45ce@b21g2000vbh.googlegroups.com">news:4206feb3-2577-44c2-88b4-f84d575b45ce@b21g2000vbh.googlegroups.com... On May 27, 5:06 pm, mojoehand <mojoeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
While using CiderPress to copy a volume made on a CFFA to a CF card destined for a MicroDrive, I got an error. The CFFA volume was 65536 blocks and the MicroDrive volume is 65535 blocks. One block smaller, so I couldn't copy the volume. Is there a reason for this? Which is the correct size?The max volume size for ProDOS is 0xffff blocks, so 65535 is correct.
May I suggest that ProDOS volume size 'is' 65536, because zero is a block. So, therefore, it would be $0000-$FFFF or $10000 or 65536. The partition Editor in the Microdrive warns you when you get to 65536 or $10000 by the "!!" after where it shows you the size you are making that partition. It's not an oversize warning, it is a MAX size warning. I make them that size all the time, and I never have a problem writing a CFFA partition over to a Microdrive partition. Bill