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- In your message (Mon, 15 May 1995 12:44:57 -0400), you wrote:
- >
- >This isnt really an executor question, but
- >maybe some of you mac gurus will know.
- >
- >I have a 512k mac with no HD and 2 800k floppies.
- >One of the floppies is external.. I would like it know if there is
- >a way i can mount that floppy under linux? for use with E/L
-
- Well, you can't put the floppy in a PC floppy drive due to the
- variable-speed drive old Macs like yours used to use. If you could
- find some way to hook up the Mac physical drive to your PC and then
- write a kernel device driver for it then maybe you could... :-)
-
- >Also Id like to use the old mac as a dumb terminal
- >I need terminal software for this old beast.
-
- This I have done. I have a Mac Classic on the desk next to me acting
- as a serial terminal on my PC. I'm using an in-house terminal program
- called Fawn II, but any terminal program should work. Here are the
- relevant lines from my various configuration files:
-
- /etc/inittab:
-
- S1:246:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100
-
- /etc/gettydefs:
-
- # 9600 baud Dumb Terminal entry
- DT9600# B9600 CS8 CLOCAL # B9600 SANE -ISTRIP CLOCAL #Login: #DT9600
-
- /etc/rc.d/rc.serial:
-
- stty clocal < /dev/ttyS1
-
- I found this last to be necessary, despite the gettydefs entry.
- Without this entry I could type commands and things on the Mac, but
- couldn't see anything, although by using redirection I knew the
- commands were working.
-
- >I tried plugging a null modem cable into the serial port and
- >the machine wont boot :< it boots fine when i take the cable out.
-
- You mean the Mac won't boot? Weird. Can't help there. Sounds like
- your null modem cable is confusing it for some reason. Do you have
- RTS/CTS lines correctly looped back? I know that that can confuse
- some PCs.
-
- Having a Mac as a serial terminal is very useful... if your console
- locks up for some reason it means you can still log in and shutdown
- cleanly rather than hitting the Big Red Switch.
-
- Tim.
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