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Re: Apple //e Dated 1984



Eric wrote:
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?

The cards themselves will work in either, but the data on the
cards cannot be accessed except using the same controller.

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.

If there's a partition table stored on the card by the Microdrive,
then all of its partitions are displaced by the length of that
table, and the CFFA will not see them correctly.

-michael

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