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Re: Executor and Mac HD
Richard Hakim (rhakim@macbeth.neuro.uottawa.ca) wrote:
: WOW!
: I just downloaded the Executor demos for Linux and Dos a few days ago,
: and I must say I'm impressed! I've always been a bit of a Mac wannabe,
: but have never had the cash to support both Mac and IBM-clones... :)
: I've got a bit of a burning question though. I have a Mac portable hard
: drive (a Joule 1080 MB), and have put an old (bios-less Trantor T128)
: SCSI card in my system (a P90 running Win95 and Linux). I'd like to get
: Executor to read and run programs off my portable HD. It says this is
: possible in the docs, but so far I haven't had any success. Under Win
: 95, the problem seems to be that Windows doesn't even recognize the SCSI
: card, so of course, it doesn't see the HD. Under Linux (I'm more
: hopeful about getting things going under Linux, really), I've got SCSI
: support built into a 1.3.30 kernel, and Linux does indeed see the SCSI
: card, but Executor doesn't read the drive. I've tried setting the
: MacVolumes env. varialbe to "/dev/sda", and running as both root and as
: a user. No luck. Then I tried setting /dev/sda to mount user,noauto
: (like it says in the FAQ) and then setting the env. variable. This time
: I noticed the HD light blink _once_ when Executor first started up. No
: luck in finding the drive, however.
: If anyone could help, I'd be really appreciative. If this works at all,
: I plan to register immediately. You have no idea how hard I've been
: looking for a Mac emulator/file converter...It's great to see something
: like this make so much progress!
: Richard Hakim
: rhakim@magi.com
--
About win95.... you should get the scsi-drivers, after that you
could get some hope.
... and linux: try mounting the drive and using it with e2fs...
-jk
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