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Magneto optical drives and other issues



I've been using 1.99p3 and have had problems reading Mac formatted 650MB
magneto-optical disks in an IBM 0632CHA 1.3GB MO drive.  I formatted and
partitioned the disk with FWB's Hard Disk ToolKit on a PowerComputing 100
running System 7.5.1.  In DOS the MO drive is I:, and if I put a 
DOS-formatted disk in the drive, Executor will recognize it as a DOS HD.  
If I put the Mac formatted disk in and type

executor -macdrives I

the partition doesn't appear.  Is this just an unimplemented part of 
Executor or do I need something like the Hard Disk ToolKit to recognize 
the Mac formatted MO disk?

Also, Executor doesn't like the way Windows 95 handles MO drives and will 
crash when it starts to check for the MO disk.  I also see the slowdown 
accessing DOS drives in full-screen DOS mode in Win95 but not in DOS6.22.

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Stephen Su    ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu



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