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Received: from gold.tc.umn.edu (gold.tc.umn.edu [128.101.115.11]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA09322 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 13:08:45 -0700 Received: by gold.tc.umn.edu; Fri, 1 Sep 95 15:08:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 15:08:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: floppies & executor/Linux To: Markmage@aol.com cc: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <950901133028_88993204@mail04.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9509011400.A12349-0100000@gold.tc.umn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 1 Sep 1995 Markmage@aol.com wrote: > If this is not the right forum for this sort of post, tell where to direct my > queries, and I will move on. > > I was a Mac user for 10 years, and reluctantly last year switched to a 486PC. > I'm running Linux, and just installed Executor. On first pass, I'm pretty > happy with Executor; a lot of it looks familiar, and I can do a number of > Mac-like things without needing Executor specific documentation. > > However, the Exectuor documentation I have found is very POOR, and there are > some basic things I cannot figure out how to do. Yes, I have read all the > FAQs I can lay my hands on; still no help. Here's the problem: > > I want to be able to read my old Mac floppy disks from Executor. It looks > like Executor will happily check my A: drive for a floppy, but my A: drive is > a 5 1/4 drive that will never have a Mac disk in it. My 3 1/2 inch drive is > the B: drive. How do I get Executor to read the B: drive? > > -Mark Stone aka markmage@aol.com > Mark, Hmm. This is just a guess, but could it be that you need /dev/floppy to be a symbolic link to /dev/fd1 instead of /dev/fd0? (Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.) Perhaps ARDI can tell us what executor probes for floppies by default... (/dev/floppy? /dev/fd0? /ddev/fd0H1440? ech. Linux does get a bit messy sometimes! :-) ARDI, As a side note... Would it be possible to make the floppy access a little smarter when it comes to mounting/unmounting disks and for formating? Either this was broken a while back, or I couldn't get things to work right. It would have been helpful if you put in a non-macintosh disk and hit "probe for floppy", that you get a dialog box that says "NON-MACINTOSH disk!" or something. (It would really be a plus if it then asks "format disk?" and has options for different format types!) Additionally, I seem to remember that using "format floppy" was a bit odd--perhaps I had a bad sector on my disk, or perhaps it was broken under the version I tried it on... But could a format be verified some way? Again, a nice dialog box would be great! I know ARDI has been trying to avoid the "look&feel" lawsuits that Apple seems to like so much, but I really to want a better way to delete files, and a more direct way to see a mounted floppy. Could the top title bar possible make a cute little ICON of a floppy disk whenever there is one mounted? (As opposed to the "hot band" idea, where if you are in the "programs" part, you can't see the "drives" part...) Could we possible hear an update on what ARDI is thinking for 2.0 GUI improvements? What happened to the hiring of a graphic artist to make icons, etc...? I'd like to be able to give you all feedback on these items since I think its really important to ARDI's success!!! Later, Jeff Halverson