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From: jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (Thrill Kill Kult)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Prodos 8 & Hard Disks
Message-ID: <9008292205.AA11166@gaffa.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Aug 90 22:05:47 GMT
References: <1888@mountn.dec.com>
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Reply-To: gaffa!jsd (Jon Drukman)
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In article <1888@mountn.dec.com> shatara@islnds.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara) writes:
>How does prodos 8 see a hard disk volume.  With GS/OS we have a SCSI 
>driver/Manager to facilitate things.  What is the equivalent in P8 land?

I don't really understand this question.  Prodos 8 sees a hard drive
as a normal drive with a big volume size.  You use any normal MLI call
on it, as if it were a floppy, or a UniDisk, or a RAMdrive, or whatever...

In ProDOS, a drive is just a bunch of blocks, a hard disk even more so...

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