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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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