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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? ;-)