Mt. Everything is a Control Panel designed to help you manage your SCSI bus(es) and the
devices such as hard disks you have connected to it.
What is new in 1.5.2?
Mt. Everything 1.5.2 fixes a bug causing the "Mount" command to silently fail to mount a drive's
partitions on a "real" (as opposed to the virtual bus) SCSI-bus when the drive being Mt. Everything's
current device held a asynchronous (SCSI Manager 4.3 savvy) driver. Not uncommon these days,
but somehow this condition slipped through my tests, sigh...
Since the bug appeared in both the 68K and PowerPC version, both builds have been updated to
version 1.5.2 (leaving a gap in the 68K branch, where there never existed a version 1.5.1).
What was new in 1.5.1 ?
Mt. Everything 1.5.1 is a bug-fix release that applies to the PowerPC build only.
The 68K (or universal) build remains unchanged as version 1.50.
This relaes fixes one most likely crashing bug caused by a leftover Debugger subroutine call.
Since this call would only be executed under certain conditions, it slipped through my test.
The bug would crash Mt. Everything and the Finder when you hit the Mount button and
some other circumstances met. If you had a low-lewel debugger installed, it would drop you
into it.
What was new in 1.5.0 ?
Compared to the latest official release, Mt. Everything 1.1.1, many things have changed.
Assuming not everyone using or evaluating this version has taken part in my efforts to
get this release ready by downloading and testing alpha and beta releases, I'll only
summarize the big picture here.
Mt. Everything 1.5 introduces a whole bunch of new features and gets rid of some outdated ones.
The main and most important new thing is: Mt. Everything finally supports multiple SCSI buses.
In fact, no matter how many SCSI buses are present on your Mac, either on-board or on
PCI- or NuBus cards, Mt. Everything lets you inspect and manage every individual bus and the
devices connected to it without forgetting to support old-style SCSI on single-bus Macs.
All the features seasoned users of Mt. Everything have come used to are there:
Mounting entire drives or single partitions, starting and stopping drives on demand and
inspecting all partitions on a drive even without having to mount the drive (or any
partition on it).
Mt. Everything's appearance has been revised to closer match Mac OS' platinum look but
with a distinct personal touch. And it still looks good on black & white only monitors!
There are many more enhancements to the user interface than rather drawing things in color:
You may now navigate through the devices on the currently displayed SCSI bus unsing the
up- and down-arrow keys on the keyboard and switch between available buses with the
left- and right-arrow keys.
More important, Mt. Everhing now does an automatic sanity check on a disk's most important
data structure, the partition map, whenever you select a drive and choose to get "Info" on it.
No other tool I'm aware of does this or tells you whats wrong in case of a problem –
Mt. Everything does!
Mt. Everything 1.5 extends its "Info" command to display the most important properties
of any SCSI bus and knows to display detail information for more "non-Mac" partition types.
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Important:
Mt. Everything no longer supports Macintosh computers with MC68000 processors.
It needs a MC68020 or better and System 7.0 or later.
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Note:
On a Blue & White PowerMac G3 (and possibly ohers) you'll end up in both an empty
Motherboard bus ID 0 and an empty virtual bus. This is not an error in Mt. Everything:
Current Mac OS software "fakes" an onboard SCSI bus (probably for compatibility reasons)
even though there is no hardware for an onboard bus.
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Mail your comments!
I’d like to have your feedback on the new look and the enhanced functions. I’d also welcome feature
requests for Mt. Everything to better be able to program to your needs and not only to mine.
Please send mail to <mailto:horst_pralow@magicvillage.de> if you have remarks on Mt. Everything
or if you find bugs in Mt. Everything. Before mailing any bug reports or feature requests, please make
sure to have read Mt. Everything's documentation because your request probably will have
been covered there!
If you send a bug report, please consider to include as much detailed and precise information about
your system configuration and the steps it takes to trigger the bug as possible. Doing so greatly helps me
to understand and possibly isolate the problem. Reports like "Mt. Everything doesn't work" or "Mt. Everything
crashes my computer" are next to useless: They neither describe the real problem nor give me any
clue of what actually doesn't work as expected. So if you have a problem to report, please take some
minutes to think about your message twice and then to make sure someone, not sitting in front of your computer and not knowing what you do, still can understand the nature of your problem!
