Re: USCD Pascal on a CFFA drive

[DaveSchmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Apr 2, 5:07 am, Wulf <app...@die-kempers.de> wrote:
> > Apple System Utilities can format a Pascal disk and transfer files, but
> > the boot block it writes produces the message you observe. You can
> > eXecute APPLE3:FORMATTER to write a real boot block to the CF card, then
> > copy your files over using the Pascal Filer.
>
> > --
> > John B. Matthews
> > trashgod at gmail dot com
> > <http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>
>
> John, you are again my hero!
>

Indeed, that was the missing neural connection!


> by formatting it with Apple Pascal and transferring the Files with
> Prodos I gained a Bootable CF partition.
>
> Unfortunately there is still a problem remaining.
>
> I get a compiler error which is: Error in write to code file,maybe not
> enough room on disk.
>

I had the same problem on my Apple III using a partition greater than
16 MB on a CF card.  Somebody left signed 16 bit arithmetic in their
code.

> I tried also to generate a new file and got a similar error "No room
> on disk"
>
> And still the CF Volume comes up with a negative block number.
>
> I guess there is a problem with the size of my partition.
> What I have found during a google search is some mentioning of a 8MB
> limit.
> Prodos can handle 32MB fine but maybe not Apple Pascal.
>
> Any thoughts?
> It sounds to me to be a nice project to enable the use of Apple Pascal
> on a CF card and I am willing to take on the task but have never done
> any work with the system.attach. I have also no documentation about
> how to write attach drivers.
>
> Anybody who can send me links or copies on how to do it?

You can always ask friends for their old, small CF cards ;-)  I'd love
to hear results from the Profile Partition Manager,

Dave...