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Re: Focus Drive //e woes



William Katz wrote:
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

I think I will get that too, and a CF card as well. Of course, that will still leave me with having to find a way to partition it for use with my Focus Card.

Why was that Focus Utility only made for the //gs? One would think there should be something for the //e? Oh well.

I asked the same question of Tony Diaz in the 1990's.   It seemed
strange to offer a drive for the //e that couldn't be maintained
on the //e.


Exactly. That was a bad business decision.


I offered to convert it to run on the //e if he had the source.  He sent
it and, when I took a look, I found something so bloated and foreign to
the //e that I would have had to start from scratch.

Since 99% of the voluminous code is just managing the quirky
GUI interface, and the only end result is writing out a block
containing the partition table, it shouldn't be too hard to do
on a //e.  But at the time, I recall having a hard time even
*finding* the structure and content of the partition table!
(I should try to find those files and see if I can figure it
out now...)


Maybe you can try again and successfully port it to the //e? :)

It's on my list--but not very near the top.  ;-(

I've just ordered an IDE-to-CF adapter, too, so that may move it
up the list.  ;-)

-michael

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