Re: CFFA V2.0

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Andy McFadden wrote:
> PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > It doesn't make a lot of sense to downselect to 4 prodos partitions to
> > use an "optimized" GSOS driver for speed and then HAVE to use HFS for
> > most of your disk with HFS having crappy overhead and all on a GS.
> >
> > I'd prefer to have a stack of 256mb cards w/8 partitions WITH a fast
> > GSOS driver rather than a 1GB card w/4 partitions and a massive HFS
> > volume.
>
>
> If you arrange your files carefully, the performance differences between
> ProDOS and HFS may not matter.  For example, if you put all the stuff
> you work on regularly in the first 4*32=128MB, and then use HFS for
> storage (disk images, ShrinkIt archives, sound/image libraries), you can
> get the low overhead of ProDOS with the large storage capacity of HFS.
>
> I've used the card in 8-volume mode for brief periods while testing, but
> I don't remember how it interacted with the GS/OS driver.

Although I agree that only 4 ProDOS partitions is a quite workable
environment, it couldn't be too difficult to modify the GSOS driver
to support more ProDOS partitions, could it?  Perhaps the author would
make the change.

-michael

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