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   A2CPM to gid...@sasktel.net   
   Re: Formatting CP/AM partitions on a CF    
   21 Jul 22 23:13:58   
   
   From: a2@wilserv.com   
      
   On Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 4:06:12 PM UTC-4, gid...@sasktel.net wrote:   
   > On Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 3:14:18 AM UTC-6, A2CPM wrote:    
   > > Ideas, anyone?    
   > The first question is how did you create the partitions for E: and F: to   
   begin with?    
   <--- snip --->    
      
       Chinook SCSI Utilities.  That program is capable of the physical   
   formatting of a CF card but it's usually not needed. CSU writes what is needed   
   by ProDOS after you specify the number of partitions and their sizes.  After   
   booting CP/AM the O/S will    
   allow accessing the partitions as drives E: and F: but not properly.  For   
   example, attempting to copy a file to either drive gets an error message about   
   insufficient directory entries.  That's 'cuz, while the partition/drive can be   
   physically read from    
   or written to, a CP/M directory structure is not present.  The yaze Z80   
   emulator package has a program for creating images of large partitions.  Maybe   
   if I play with that program I can transfer enough valid information from the   
   yaze image to my CF card    
   to allow CP/AM to play nice with it.   
      
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