Re: Question on ProDOS SmartPort drive remapping

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Dec 18, 6:54 am, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2:33 am, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd aim for 6502 64k machines with lowercase support, and try to be
> > compatible with ProDOS v1.9 as well.
>
> Support for Smartport devices with more than 2 drives (4 in slot 5)
> was only added with P8 2.0.x so my program will not be able to do
> anything on 1.9.
>
> I would refer you to ProDOS Technical Note #23 but I cannot find one
> that is new enough to include the v2.0.x versions of ProDOS.

Oh, I was under the impression the remapping was easily done with
earlier versions since many disk controllers used to pull the stunt,
but I guess there's more to it than I first thought.

Matt