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Re: CFFA V2.0

Andy McFadden wrote:
> Simon D. Williams <email@ld8.org> wrote:
> > DOS Master was (for me, at least) a bit difficult to set-up... I tried
> > it on my Microdrive, but couldn't get it to work, though I'm fairly
> > sure that was down to human error rather than hardware.
>
> I've had pretty good luck with DOS Master -- the 800K disk images with
> cassette programs that I posted recently use 5 140K DOS Master partitions.
> Using it on a hard drive is a bit more awkward, especially since I believe
> it requires the blocks to be sequential (defragmenting the hard drive is
> a Bad Idea).

One of the problems I've found (I think) is that the DOS partitions on
a hard drive have sequential volume numbers, which means any software
that checks the volume # has to be on the corresponding partition... at
least I _think_ that's how it works.
-s