Re: 800K partitions

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <lunaticCB40ur.J7p@netcom.com> lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) writes:
>      _
>     /-\ctually, the Chinook SCSI Utils (at least the version I have, 1.5)
>  only have a resolution of 1K, not one block (.5K).

Nope - you can definitely set up partitions in multiples of 1 block.
The arrow keys give you 32k increments (Apple-arrow is larger
increments), +/- give you 1k increments, and Apple-< and Apple-> give
you one block (0.5k) increments.

I did this yesterday with C.S.U. version 1.5.

Speaking of which, I gather Chinook have vanished, and this program is
now in limbo.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?

If so, it is a great pity - C.S.U. is the most useful piece of SCSI
software I've come across on the Apple II or Mac.  My major complaint
with it is that you can't set up partitions larger than 32 megabytes.

>      _
>     /-\ user on GEnie reported that he was sucessfully using his
>  Floptical as a hard drive for a PC Transporter, which is interesting
>  because the PCT uses a P8 loader.  I suspect that it was working only
>  because the PCT had to have been making direct SCSI calls (like
>  Chinook SCSI Utils), and must wait a long time before timing out (a
>  good idea for the PCT, since it would have to work on quite a variety
>  of different drives).

I very much doubt that the PCT is making SCSI calls.  The PCT access
its "hard drive" as a file through the ProDOS-8 operating system.  It
accesses floppies by doing ProDOS BLOCK_READ/WRITE calls to the
appropriate device (or possibly direct calls to the device's block
driver).
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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