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From: c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Creating phony floppies on the fly
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Date: 14 May 91 03:38:42 GMT
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In article <1991May14.012456.4618@news.iastate.edu> taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>  It was really pretty neat.  So what we want on the Amiga is something a lot
> like this, rather than creating a new partition, we would just create one
> big 880K file.  And then some sort of device driver that would in effect
> make this big file look like a disk.  Sort of like RAD: does with RAM.
>  
>  Now I suppose we could ask two questions:
>  1. Who's going to write it?
>  2. Why not just use RAD: to begin with?
 
The reason why I don't want to use RAD: is that I *do* want 10-20 of these
things.  That's doable on a 105 meg hard drive but wee bit much for 3 meg
of ram.
 
Actually, someone sent my a copy of FMSdisk.device which is supposed to do
all this.  I will find out in a few days.  I'm still waiting on my
controller and ZorroII adapter board.
 
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