Re: Joliet FS (WAS: SCSI Interface for A2GS)

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

 a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>>A PC running Win95, WinNT, etc. is quite happy reading an ISO CD with
>>Macintosh naming.  The question is whether the IIgs can cope.
>
>    Now, I only have an extremely vage recollection of how the 
>HS.FST handled those filenames. I *think* (and I stress think) it
>displayed them much the way MS-DOS sees long filenames. 
>That is "This_is_a_long_filename.txt" would display as 
>"This_~.txt". I can't remember if I ever installed that INIT
>patch mentioned above. Probably not.

>    Unfortunately I can't do any further testing as the only working
>SCSI CD-ROMs I have on hand (Toshiba 1x and 4x) are seen as
>non-removable devices by both my RamFAST and Apple SCSI
>controllers. I'm assuming either the drives are internally jumpered
>to work with 512 byte block size for Sun SPARCstations (or the
>firmware is setting it up this way) or simply defective.

    Funny that just _hours_ after posting that I should come across 
an Apple 300e Plus CD-ROM on my way back home. :)

    Needless to say I bought it (along with a Mac LC 475, Mac
SE keyboard and ADB mouse II) and now have it hooked up 
to my RamFAST. The good news is it's recognized, treated as 
a removeable device (yay!) and seems to read all my CDR's on 
hand. Though getting it to play audio CD's may be a bit tricky 
unfortunately (anyone have success with the 300e Plus?).

    I was right about the way the HS.FST treats filenames. It
abridges naming to 8.3 characters in the same way MS-DOS
does when dealing with long filenames, plus a ";1" suffix on
each file rather like VMS. However, I cannot access any
files or folders with > 8.3 character. I'm assuming that if I can
find Dr. Bazyar and install it, this problem will be solved.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca