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Re: Question on ProDOS SmartPort drive remapping

Subject: Re: Question on ProDOS SmartPort drive remapping
From: David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 03:18:01 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 5, 8:51 pm, "BluPhoenyx" <bluphoe...@a2central.com.remove-i9j-
this> wrote:
> David Wilson wrote:
> > ProDOS supports up to 14 volumes but reserves 3/2 for /RAM (v2.0.1
> > forgot to do that and would, if you had enough SmartPort devices, map
> > a drive to it and then overwrite it with /RAM). I have managed to get
> > 15 drives working under ProDOS by using 0/2 (0/1 aka Unit 00 is
> > special and cannot be used).
>
> Is it possible to disable the /ram to allow another disk to be remapped?

It might be possible. I would have to find the size of the table used
to map ProDOS unit numbers to SmartPort slot and unit numbers.

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