Re: Question on ProDOS SmartPort drive remapping

[David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com>]

On Dec 6, 7:48 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> David Wilson wrote:
> > On Dec 5, 5:26 pm, demp...@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> >>In principle, someone could write a program which patched the SmartPort
> >>device mapping table inside ProDOS's language card, and this could allow
> >>more units to be swapped in under user control, as long as the interface
> >>card firmware supported more devices.
>
> > Would anyone be interested in such a program? I must do some 6502
> > programming again before I forget how to...
>
> I think it would be very handy for //e users with Apple SCSI cards
> and large volumes.  ;-)

OK, I will have a go. I have Apple SCSI cards and some largish drives
- if I need to I could just partition a small SCSI drive into lots of
800KB slices.

> ...now if only the CFFA could use it...  ;-)

If I get it to work on SCSI I will check out the CFFA firmware and see
what if anything is needed to change to allow it to work there (I do
not have a CFFA so someone else will need to test any changes I make).