Re: Is Davong (Hard Drives) still in business?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3HV2sc1w165w@tlp.apana.org.au>,
Peter Maloney <peterm@tlp.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Given that DOS 3.3 has a volume size limit of 400K [D, hard disk support 
>is a bit of a worry...   *<8o)X
>I had an Adaptec DOS 3.3 drive of (Ithink) 20 Meg. A patched DOS 3.3 saw 
>it a lots of 400K volumes (yes, a use for the Volume Number at last!).
>The card in the Apple was labelled KONAN. Worked well, but all those 
>volumes were a hassle. 
>I suppose DOS 3.3 could handle a SCSI drive the same way... ?

   Ok, assume a 20MB scsi disk. That's 51 400K disks. You want to
try and keep track of them simply by volume number? I assume you'll
probably have to keep a printout by the computer :)

   Dos 3.3. is limited to 104 files/volume (no subdirectories),
and 400K/volume. ProDOS volumes offer so much more, except for the
"Really long file names & imbedded control chars" names that are
so popular. If you _have_ to run Dos 3.3 off a HD, get 'Dos 3.3
Launcher'. Just about everything that's not copy protected and runs
in 48K can be put on your HD.

   What's still left in Dos 3.3 format? A bunch of copy-protected
games (where are the crackers now that we need them to rip off
all protection :) and not much more. Even such things as Eamon have
been moved to ProDOS (still in Basic,/P8 but that may change sooner
or later)...

Nathan Mates


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