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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: How to write a software that simulate a disk drive (volume)
- Keywords: question, disk drive, volume, big problems, wizards wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.004212.27408@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 00:42:12 GMT
- References: <1gnbguINNmr7@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <1992Dec16.193357.19283@kth.se>
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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- In article <1992Dec16.193357.19283@kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Waette) writes:
- >In <1gnbguINNmr7@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> arminl@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Armin Luetkenhaus) writes:
- >
- >>I'm going to write a piece of software that simulates a disk drive
- >>on the Macintosh.
- >
- >Don+t do it. The External File System "Manager" is not documented
- >and an exceedingly ugly beast to fight.
-
- Will Apple still send out the document on it?
-
- >>Any kind of help is welcome!!!
- >
- >You could TRY writing an AppleShare server, and set self-send to
- >true on the machine mounting. Hmm. Maybe.
-
- Trying to simulate a DISK DRIVE is a different beast than simulating a
- file system. (I missed the original post so I'm not clear on what is
- wanted here)
- To simulate a disk drive, you have to write something
- which accepts the low level calls for the sony driver, and call _AddDrive to
- add it to the queue. (there's a tech note on this...)
-
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