Re: CDROM Burners

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Joe Kohn <joko@EnufWithTheSpam!crl.com> wrote:

>  >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.

It sounds like Golden Orchard is organised similarly to the Apple System
6 Golden Master (just more HFS partitions), so I don't understand the
different behaviour.

In particular: how is Wayne managing to read the ProDOS partition on
this CD with the standard Apple CD driver (unless this feature was added
with the one that comes with Mac OS 9; this seems unlikely).

I'll take my CD into work today and try mounting it with Toast.

Astarte CD-Copy appears to ignore all the ProDOS partitions.  It only
displays the HFS one.

> The following is from the Golden Orchard Release Notes, and it explains how
> to mount multi-partition CD-ROMs on the Mac:
 
[snip]

>  >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.)

Does this not work with PC Exchange?  The ProDOS File System Extension
is rather old (it came out around the time of the IIe emulation card for
the LC, which puts it around 1992), and I don't know how it would
interact with PC Exchange, let alone recent system software versions.

I don't intend to run third party CD drivers (except with my CD writer,
of course).  I haven't needed to so far.

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David Empson
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