Re: Apple //e Dated 1984

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Eric" <englere_geo@yahoo.com> wrote in message cd1c37ca-2d0f-4d41-93f2-eff43cde15dd@p1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com">news:cd1c37ca-2d0f-4d41-93f2-eff43cde15dd@p1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
: On Dec 17, 5:25 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
:
: > And the Microdrive uses a partition table, while the CFFA is "hard
: > partitioned" in one of several switch-selected schemes.
:
: I didn't know about this difference. Does that make the flash cards
: incompatible between the Microdrive and the CFFA?

Correct. They can't be interchanged.

: I know the 32 Meg partitions seem compatible, but I only have a
: Microdrive so I don't know if the whole cards can be plugged into the
: other type of board.

The thing I like about the Microdrive is, that you
can partition it randomly. Where the CFFA must be
32,32,32,whatever is left under 32 (128mb card used
as an exemple), the Microdrive can be any sized
partition up to 32mb for ProDOS and larger for HFS.

William Garber
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