MOL now supports SCSI (CD burners etc...)

Samuel Rydh mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:06:05 +0200


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:12:18PM -0500, Eric Haines wrote:
>  
> On 12-Jul-03, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> > 
> > MOL now supports generic SCSI. In particular, it is now
> > possible to burn CDs/DVDs under OS X (no MacOS 9 support yet
> > though).
> > 
> > IDE burners are supported through the ide-scsi kernel mechanism.
> > 
> > I would really appreciate it if as many as possible could give the
> > new code some testing. In particular, I would like to know
> > the iPod or other firewire devices that uses SCSI-like commands
> > work.
> > 
> > Instructions how build MOL from the development tree, are available
> > at
> > 
> >     http://www.maconlinux.org/dev.html
> > 
> > /Samuel
> 
> That's very cool.  Does the "no MacOS9 support yet" refer to just
> CD burning or SCSI in general?

No generic SCSI support in Mac OS 9 at all. I actually have some
very old MacOS 9 code which does what is needed but I have to bring
it up to date.

/Samuel