Re: Apple II CFFA

[David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au>]

willi@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche) writes:
>    One flaw that I hope to do something about is that the partitions
>the card creates on Compact Flash cards aren't Apple standard.

It certainly isn't the first card not to use an Apple standard partition
table. I have a couple of Cirtech SCSI cards that just divide the disk into
32MB slices. The CMS SCSI car used jumpers to set partition sizes I believe.

The common denominator is that none of these cards has any RAM on board.
If you don't have RAM to store the partition table then you would have to
re-read it each time you access the drive and this would be terribly
inefficient. The ][+ & //e have no safe area of RAM to use on the motherboard.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia