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Executor and Mac HD



WOW!

I just downloaded the Executor demos for Linux and Dos a few days ago, 
and I must say I'm impressed!  I've always been a bit of a Mac wannabe, 
but have never had the cash to support both Mac and IBM-clones... :)

I've got a bit of a burning question though.  I have a Mac portable hard 
drive (a Joule 1080 MB), and have put an old (bios-less Trantor T128) 
SCSI card in my system (a P90 running Win95 and Linux).  I'd like to get 
Executor to read and run programs off my portable HD.  It says this is 
possible in the docs, but so far I haven't had any success.  Under Win 
95, the problem seems to be that Windows doesn't even recognize the SCSI 
card, so of course, it doesn't see the HD.  Under Linux (I'm more 
hopeful about getting things going under Linux, really), I've got SCSI 
support built into a 1.3.30 kernel, and Linux does indeed see the SCSI 
card, but Executor doesn't read the drive.  I've tried setting the 
MacVolumes env. varialbe to "/dev/sda", and running as both root and as 
a user.  No luck.  Then I tried setting /dev/sda to mount user,noauto 
(like it says in the FAQ) and then setting the env. variable.  This time 
I noticed the HD light blink _once_ when Executor first started up.  No 
luck in finding the drive, however.

If anyone could help, I'd be really appreciative.  If this works at all, 
I plan to register immediately.  You have no idea how hard I've been 
looking for a Mac emulator/file converter...It's great to see something 
like this make so much progress!

Richard Hakim
rhakim@magi.com


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