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- From: dan@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Dan Pleasant)
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:00:26 GMT
- Subject: Micronet/Syquest drive number problem
- Message-ID: <450020@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
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- I'm having some problems with Syquest drives when they are formatted
- with the Micronet formatter (most recent version). Maybe somebody
- out there knows how to handle this.
-
- When the computer boots up, the Syquest drive has a certain drive
- number (say, 5) associated with it. My program remembers this number.
- Later, my program dismounts the Syquest disk and waits for the user
- to put another disk in. That's simple enough -- it just waits until
- there's a disk in drive 5. That's simple enough, and it works for
- all kinds of drives -- except for Syquests formatted with the
- Micronet formatter.
-
- When a second Micronet-formatted Syquest disk is inserted into the
- drive, the drive is mounted on the desktop *with a different drive
- number*. So, my program waits forever for another disk to be
- inserted in drive 5. Meanwhile, the user has already inserted another
- disk into the drive. It appeared on the Mac as a different drive --
- say, drive number 12 -- so my software doesn't find it.
-
- Now, I could easily walk the drive queue and find another drive that
- is controlled by the same driver. Alas, that doesn't work if the
- user has a dual Syquest drive, because then I would find 2 drives
- that are controlled by the same driver and I wouldn't know which
- one is which.
-
- Does anybody know how to handle this situation? I'm having trouble
- finding a contact at Micronet (any Micronet employees out there?), and
- I need some help really fast.
-
- My thanks to all, and if there is sufficient interest I'll post the
- answer to the net.
-
- Dan Pleasant
-
-