Re: IIGS - Mac - ProDos

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid> wrote:
>> > If you're running Mac OS 9, you should have all the files needed to read 
>> > the card *IF* it has a partition map that OS 9 understands.
>> 
>> No CF drive for the Apple II that I know of will have a Mac
>> partition map.
> 
> Yea, but I'd assume that it doesn't have to be a Mac partition map as it 
> should be able to read the CF card the way it's formatted out of the box 
> or by the camera.  I'd guess that'd be something MS-DOS related.  And I 
> don't know if the various Apple II CF card options make use of a 
> partition map like that.  Or heck, I don't even know for certain if 
> there is a partition map on a CF card.

CF card out of a camera has a FAT filesystem.  I can't remember offhand
if it has a trivial Windows partition map or just starts at block 0 like
a floppy.  I think it's the latter, but I'm away from my Windows system
at the moment.

CFFA has no partition map, FocusDrive and MicroDrive have custom maps.  If
you put a Mac or Windows partition map on a CF card nothing on the Apple II
will recognize it.

With Mac OS X you *might* be able to "dd" the blocks straight off the CF
card into an image file and work with that.

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