Re: CFFA for IIc and IIc+?

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

On Apr 8, 3:41 pm, "a2retro" <a2re...@a2central.com.remove-ui-this>
wrote:
>   To: gids.rs
>
>
>
> gids.rs wrote:
> > On Apr 8, 12:26 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Apr 8, 1:50 pm, Mike Spurgeon <m...@spurgeon.net> wrote:
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> >>> Sheppy wrote:
> >>>> I personally expect to probably use this in a IIc+, although now that
> >>>> I think about it, since I really want to be using it with 5.25" disks
> >>>> as a disk writing machine, it would be more space efficient to use a
> >>>> IIc with a built-in 5.25" drive instead,
> >>> If an external IIc 5.25 drive also works with a IIc+, you could have the
> >>> best of both.
> >> Well, what I'm looking for is the smallest possible footprint in terms
> >> of desk space for writing 5.25" disks to fill orders.  Right now, I'm
> >> using a IIgs with a stack of drives next to it, which takes up a lot
> >> of desk space.  If I could switch to a IIc with internal flash storage
> >> and built-in 5.25" drive, I wouldn't need any external devices, which
> >> would vastly reduce my footprint, and would save room on my already
> >> cluttered desk.
>
> >> Right now, the IIgs is across the room on a separate table, which
> >> hurts my productivity when writing disks to fill orders.
>
> >> Sheppy
>
> > or you can get rid of all those drives and just use a CFFA card.  I
> > wrote a driver to access up to 8 GB under Prodos 8 and am still
> > working on a GSOS driver.  This works on Rich Drehers CFFA card and if
> > I can get a hold of Henrys source code for his microdrive, I could
> > quite easily write one for his as well.
>
> >http://dreher.net/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=7778d470e90e0df4669334a...
>
> > Rob
>
> Hi Rob, thats cool news ... is this code a extension to the driver or a
> prodos patch?
>
> Any possibility of adding that to the eeprom image so a loadable driver
> is not required?
>
> Glenn

It is actually a basic.system command that gets inserted between basic
and its buffers.

Probably not a good idea to add to an eeprom as it relies on
basic.system's volume command and certain addresses set aside by
basic.system to calculate which drive to use.

Rob