Re: New idea HD for C=

From: Todd S Elliott (eyethian_at_juno.com)
Date: 1999-09-05 07:23:07

On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 04:36:55 +0100 (GMT) Richard Atkinson
<rga24@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 1. Have the 1541 ROMs been disassembled and fully documented yet?
> 
Yes. AFAIK, Inside Commodore DOS is the only book I know of that contains
the disassemblies and as well as drive programming and copy protection
schemes.

> 2. Is CBM-DOS capable of accessing large drives? If not, it would 
> have to
> be implemented as a large number of virtual disks, which might not 
> be a
> bad idea as it would get round the no-subdirectories limitation.
> 
Depends on the drive DOS. If it's the DOS as found in the drives
associated with the PETs, then I believe they can recognize large drives.
But if it's the 1541, then I doubt it.

-Todd Elliott

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