Re: CFFA for IIc and IIc+?

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

> Partition selection is always an issue, but, frankly, having
> even four 32MB partitions online simultaneously is plenty for
> 99.9% of all pre-IIgs uses--and that part is easy.  (And using
> a 1GB or 2GB card for just 128MB of storage is OK since the cards
> are only a few dollars.)
>
> -michael

Partitions won't be necessary any more
I have written a driver to access up to 8 GB using the volume command
from basic system but this requires basic.system to be loaded but the
advantabge is that it treats each 32 MB drive as a separate volume
which you can have up to 256 volumes and you can Prefix, save and
load, to and from, each drive separately.
and I have also written a system file driver that gets loaded right
after Prodos and takes up a very small foot print (under 1 block) that
accesses up to 8 GB as one volume.  It treats each 32 MB volume as a
separate folder so that cataloging the drive will now allow one to
have up to 13056 files in the root directory (normally this is only 51
files and 51 x 256 = 13056).  This limit will also vary to the size of
the CFFA or SD cards.
You will no longer have to use slot and drive conventions or the
prefix command, er ... well ... only if you don't use the actual 5.25"
and 3.5" drives.  :)

Since the driver intercepts any read and write commands that go to the
firmware, this will work with all applications that use Prodos to do
the disk access and do not have their own standard of dos.

Rob