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Re: CFFA card and the Mac
Frank M. wrote:
OS X adds a few extra invisible files to whatever file system it
encounters on mount that keep the window and desktop settings. also,
windoze doesn't 'mount' the drive which is why you can just unplug a
USB flash drive for example, whereas on the mac you have to 'eject' it
first.
not really sure if there's a way to turn the mounting process off. any
UNIX nerds out there know? but that's where you'd have to start before
even trying to look at blocks/sectors on the CF card. you wouldn't want
OS X to write anything extra to the card or it would probably destroy
any A2 partitions.
Certainly, MacOS won't "mount" any drive that it judges to be
unformatted.
Any app accessing such a drive would have to open it as a device.
I'm on a mac also (new intel core 2 duo imac!), and i should receive my
CFFA this week, so i'm also interested if doing CiderPress-style direct
reading/writing to the card from a mac.
The CFFA doesn't put any partition table or drivers at the front of
the drive, as a "properly formatted" Apple drive would have.
The best plan for opening such a device, which may have any of several
partition schemes, depending on what controller it was formatted with,
is to examine the raw blocks and apply a heuristic to "search" for a
partitioning scheme that seems to work.
Of course, if any writing is to be done, the consistency checks would
have to go deep enough to ensure accurate recognition of, for example,
a ProDOS or HFS file system.
Wolfgang wrote:
John,
I tried AC and like the tool but it does not recognize the MMC when the
card is formatted for the CFFA.
I guess main problem is that OSX is not mounting the device as it is
unrecognizable for OSX (instead it likes to format it)
Does anybody now how this problem is solved with Ciderpress?
Is the PC OS ( I will not say the bad W word:-) ) handling this issue
differently?
-michael
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