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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Executor and Mac HD
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 23:54:22 -0700
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- >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Hakim <rhakim@macbeth.neuro.uottawa.ca> writes:
- In article <311D92E5.5ACC@macbeth.neuro.uottawa.ca> Richard Hakim <rhakim@macbeth.neuro.uottawa.ca> writes:
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- Richard> WOW! I just downloaded the Executor demos for Linux and
- Richard> Dos a few days ago, and I must say I'm impressed!
-
- Thanks. Executor's still pre-beta, too, although that should change
- soon.
-
- Richard> I've
- Richard> always been a bit of a Mac wannabe, but have never had
- Richard> the cash to support both Mac and IBM-clones... :)
-
- Richard> I've got a bit of a burning question though. I have a
- Richard> Mac portable hard drive (a Joule 1080 MB), and have put
- Richard> an old (bios-less Trantor T128) SCSI card in my system (a
- Richard> P90 running Win95 and Linux). I'd like to get Executor
- Richard> to read and run programs off my portable HD. It says
- Richard> this is possible in the docs, but so far I haven't had
- Richard> any success. Under Win 95, the problem seems to be that
- Richard> Windows doesn't even recognize the SCSI card, so of
- Richard> course, it doesn't see the HD.
-
- You'll need an ASPI driver for your SCSI card before Executor can do
- anything.
-
- Richarc> Under Linux (I'm more
- Richard> hopeful about getting things going under Linux, really),
- Richard> I've got SCSI support built into a 1.3.30 kernel, and
- Richard> Linux does indeed see the SCSI card, but Executor doesn't
- Richard> read the drive. I've tried setting the MacVolumes
- Richard> env. varialbe to "/dev/sda", and running as both root and
- Richard> as a user. No luck. Then I tried setting /dev/sda to
- Richard> mount user,noauto (like it says in the FAQ) and then
- Richard> setting the env. variable. This time I noticed the HD
- Richard> light blink _once_ when Executor first started up. No
- Richard> luck in finding the drive, however.
-
- Hmmm... Try "dd bs=1k count=1 < /dev/sda | od -c | head" and see if
- you get an error. If you don't, send the output that you get to
- "questions@ardi.com" with a brief explanation of what you're doing and
- someone will look at it.
-
- Richard> If anyone could help, I'd be really appreciative. If
- Richard> this works at all, I plan to register immediately. You
- Richard> have no idea how hard I've been looking for a Mac
- Richard> emulator/file converter...It's great to see something
- Richard> like this make so much progress!
-
- Good luck. The output from the above command might help us figure out
- what's going on.
-
- Richard> Richard Hakim rhakim@magi.com
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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