Have you read the somewhat new technote on sparse files? It is the most official, complete info I know of. I'm not sure if it answers your questions, but you definitely should check it out.
>Soenke, bad formatting on my posts
Sorry about the formatting. It happens when I post from a Mac and not from my IIGS; I don't think I can fix it automatically.
>connecting 2 monitors
The VOC supports 2 monitors with, I'm pretty sure, 2 seperate displays. I'm not sure how much work it would be to take advantage of this.
>WindowShade thing
A few people liked the idea. I will keep it in mind, but no guarantees.
>Dave Empson, fooling ADU to get Mac driver on non-Apple disk
I've suggested (a few times) the method you just mentioned, but no one
has gotten back to me to say if it works. Do you have confirmation? (I know -- it definitely _should_ work.)
What I did was Derez ADU, get the driver, and Rez just that. It was a few months later that I thought of just using the ADU file itself (duh!). And you're right, the not-so-generic (not meant to be) driver does not recognize cart exchanges.
re: Mac formatted drive not working on IIGS
You say formatting on the Mac _should_ be fine, and I agree, but it isn't. When I formatted a Syquest cart on a Mac, Finder saw something like 40 unrecognizable devices and ADU was so confused it wouldn't even re-format, zero, initialize or anything. It took the 8-bit SCSI utils to overwrite the junk the Mac put on. It _seems_ that what happened is the Mac formatter left a continuous stream of some number (I forget) instead of zero in empty parts of the partition map. When I read it in, the valid info was
followed by the same hex number and the
messed up partitions ADU saw all had the same size and name, both consisting of this hex number. It worked fine on 2 Macs, though.
-Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
ps- Ack! I see my easy idea for formatting didn't work. I'll try manual CR's
