Re: 32-bit ProDOS FST

[johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling)]

In article <4b5o96$597@rock101.genie.net>,  <just.dave@genie.com> wrote:
>harold.h@genie.com (Harold Hislop) writes:
>
>>I, and two other (very notable) IIgs programmers, have made some serious
>>efforts twords cobbling this into a ProDOS-Like file system using words
>>instead of bytes, longwords instead of words, etc. It looks very do-able,
>>but it would =NOT= be a bootable file system. (unless a new boot stub
>>and a bunch of other things were cobbled up)
>
>This sounds cool.  Now the trick is to hack ProDOS 8 to be able to read this
>filesystem.  That's where it's really needed.  Somehow, I think the required
>hack to P8 will prove to be more difficult than the ProDOSKlone FST...
>
>My BBS is what I need the space for, and it runs in ProDOS 8.  If I needed
>that much space in GS/OS, I could use HFS partitions.  In ProDOS 8, we don't
>have that luxury.  An FST won't help P8...

Perhaps a BBS that runs under GS/OS.  Seems like someone should have done it.
You could also consider a hack to ProDOS 8 that will allow multiple 
partitions on line that appear to the BBS as a directories in the top 
level directory which doesn't actually exist.  The drive names would 
become the directory names.  This would allow lots of 32meg partitions on 
line without any problem.  This could probably be written as an interface 
between the BBS and ProDOS.

Using two SCSI boards can get around the 12 active devices limit of RamFAST.
I have had 13 partitions active with an Apple HS-SCSI, but I don't know 
if there is a limit somewhere.
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