Re: Question on ProDOS SmartPort drive remapping

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Watch out for the 7 volume limit on the original Apple SCSI card. You
might run into problems with the 110 volume limit on the High-Speed card
if you have a 1 GBish drive and 800 KB partitions.

Do you have sofware which can create dozens of partitions? I seem to
recall that Chinook SCSI Utilties is limited to something like 16. I
remember having a little trouble setting up my current 850 MB IIgs hard
drive, which has 11 partitions (six 32 MB ProDOS, four larger HFS, one
leftover which contains a copy of the System 6.0.1 installer, modified
to run off a single volume).

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz