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Re: Executor and Mac HD



>>>>> "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:


    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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