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- Reply-To: Stephen Su <ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu>
- Subject: Re: Magneto optical drives and other issues
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- On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, zinc wrote:
-
- > On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Stephen Su wrote:
- >
- > > 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
- > >
- >
- >
- > i don't think this is a limitation of executor at all. we have a couple
- > of Pinacle Micro magneto-optical drives (650 MB and 1.3 GB). in my
- > experience the DOS driver will not read Mac disks and the Mac driver
- > (extension...) will not read DOS formatted disks.
- >
- > if the computer cannot access the disk, then there's no way for executor
- > to get to it either.
-
- It seems like there should still be a way around it. CDROM drivers for
- DOS/Win machines (proprietary, ATAPI, and SCSI) all work with Mac
- formatted CDROMs, even though the DOS drivers weren't written with the Mac
- format in mind. The same thing's true about BIOSes and ASPI drivers with
- regards to SCSI hard drives. I don't know anything about how Executor
- manages to read Mac media on PC hardware, so I'll defer to ARDI to say
- whether this is an Executor limitation or driver limitation. (BTW, I'm
- using ADVASPI.SYS from Advansys and UNI_ASP.SYS from Corel SCSI 2.0 as
- the drivers in DOS/Win 3.1.)
-
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- Stephen Su ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu
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