Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber replied:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message =
>20031223170716.12363.00001576@mb-m05.aol.com">news:20031223170716.12363.00001576@mb-m05.aol.com...
>: Bill Garber wrote:
>:=20
>: <snip>
>:=20
>: >I have a box full of smaller hard drives, might as well
>: >put them to good use. Also, from info given to me by a
>: >very respected source, the Apple IIc can handle up to
>: >much larger drives on SmartPort. Unless I misunderstood
>: >what he was telling me.
>:=20
>: The SmartPort firmware may be able to, but ProDOS
>: isn't able to, so the point is moot.
>
>Nothing is Moot. ProDOS is not carved in stone.=20
>It could be patched to allow more than 2 drives=20
>per slot. If there is space to do so.=20

But to modify ProDOS to allow volumes greater than 32MB
would be 1) very difficult, and 2) would obsolete almost all
ProDOS disk tools.

It would not be very difficult to write a "mount" utility to
allow any of a large number of 32MB partitions to occupy
the limited number of ProDOS Slot/Device mount points.
This would be the most straightforward way to make larger
disks usable on 8-bit Apple II's.

-michael

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