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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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