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Re: CDROM Burners
>My System 6 Golden Master has both ProDOS and HFS partitions, and the
>standard Mac driver has never mounted the ProDOS ones.
The Golden Orchard CD-ROM has a 32 meg ProDOS bootable partition, as well as
multiple HFS partitions.
The following is from the Golden Orchard Release Notes, and it explains how
to mount multi-partition CD-ROMs on the Mac:
>All six partitions of Golden Orchard should easily be usable on an
>Apple IIGS. On a Macintosh however, there are a few hitches. Apple's
>standard Macintosh CD-ROM drivers only support one HFS volume per
>CD-ROM. As such you will need third party drivers that support more
>than one HFS volume. We recommend FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit
>(http://www.fwb.com/ for more information). CD-ROM Toolkit also has
>the benefit of being able to mount the ProDOS partition on the Mac
>as well, so long as you have the Mac ProDOS File System Extension in
>your Extensions folder. (This extension is part of the Mac Apple IIe
>card software which can be found in the Apple Software folder on
>Golden Orchard.)
Joe Kohn
http://www.crl.com/~joko
Hmmm. I'm wondering if the above qualifies me for a "I know something
that David Empson doesn't" t-shirt? ;-)