Sider (Xebec/Datamac SASI) drive and UCSD Pascal 1.1 (Apple Pascal)

[msg@waste.org (Michael Grigoni)]

Greetings:

We need to locate whatever installation software is necessary
to permit Apple UCSD Pascal 1.1 to recognize the Pascal
volumes on a Sider drive; standard Pascal 1.1 booted from
floppy doesn't recognize the drive although a boot track
writer program for the Xebec (XBOOT.COM.CODE) will write
the boot track to the HOME volume from standard floppy-
booted Pascal.

If one boots Pascal from the Sider, the running system
expects the root volume to be on the floppy which was
the root volume when creating the boot track (instead of the
Sider's root volume) and of course the running system
doesn't recognize the Sider's Pascal volumes.

There must have been a custom loader or other patches
to permit Pascal to use the drive.

All replies much appreciated.

Regards,

Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum