Subject: Re: Some good news, some bad news...
From: Bruce Thompson (Bruce_Thompson@palm.com)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2000 - 09:25:07 MDT
Hi,
I figured as much. I'll consider trying out the 2.4 kernels. Like
I said, this is a 99% solution. The FireWire drive is used strictly
for video editting and it's not a huge burden to reboot into native
MacOS to do that.
As far as the CDs go, at this point the CD shows up as a hard
drive, not with the CD icon. Apple System Prodoes not report the
drive as a CD either. Once again, it's not a show stopper, just a
minor nit.
Cheers,
Bruce.
At 14:20 +0000 10/25/00, Quentin Mason wrote:
>Hi Bruce,
>
>> I have run into a snag with the FireWire drive though. It doesn't
>> appear at this point that I can mount my FireWire drive. I haven't
>> dug too deep yet. Also, dismounting and ejecting CDs does not appear
>> to work. I can unmount the CD, but MacOS warns that I won't see it
>> again until I restart. Sure enough, the CD doesn't eject and doesn't
>> spin down. Is the fact that the CD is loaded (but not mounted on the
>> Linux side) when MOL starts up a factor?
>
>wrt Firewire Drive + camera.
>
>At the moment this cannot be done. The reason is that while you are
>running MacOS inside linux, you are not using the MacOS serial, firewire,
>or USB input protocols: Samuel is putting some sort of virtual device into
>the MacOS which can get the correct information _from_ linux. Try looking
>at your System Profile in MOL -- you will see what I mean. Therefore if
>you are not beta testing firewire support in 2.4.0test? kernels then you
>cannot have it in MOL.
>
>Do the CD's show up with a CD icon? I do not think that you can remount
>drives in MOL at the moment, though I recall Samuel saying that it would
>not be too difficult to add. There is a way to export partitions or CD's
>via netatalk -- which presiumably can therefore change. Look at the
>netatalk information /usr/doc/netatalk... but I think the deal is to add
>some flag to the mount command (you might need to recompile mount with
>netatalk support).
>
>Sorry,
>
>Q.
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