Date   : Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:34:00 +0100
From   : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: New storage system suggestinons?

> I think the biggest limitation at the moment will be that RamFS is derived 
> from a DFS filing system, rather than an ADFS one.
>
> The RAM capacity could be an issue too, as to emulate two ADFS floppies 
> you'd need 1280K of RAM, so I suspect any ADFS floppy emulation would be 
> limited to a single drive (as I think the DataCentre RAM is only 1024K)

I thought of this when writing the RamFS. There is no point is having ADFS 
floppy emulation, because in ADFS, floppy disks and hard disks are all seen 
by the end user as the same thing, the only difference being the capacity. 
So in order to emulate a floppy, you would just need to create a hard drive 
of 640k size on a CF, and use that - or make a directory on a larger ADFS 
drive, and put all the floppy contents into it - providing the programs dont 
issue a *DIR $ it should work ok.

One of the things on my "to do" list is to either impliment exporting and 
importing of ADFS .ADL images directly in the ROM, or through utility 
programs stored on Drive 4, so at least ADFS floppies can be imaged onto 
another floppy, or onto a CF.

Mark.