Greg Buchner wrote:
In article <gcWdnS8s5_KkuH7YnZ2dnUVZ_tvinZ2d@comcast.com>, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:Greg Buchner wrote:In article <1172366057.401322.270030@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>, sundown@nwrain.net wrote:Thanks for the advice but I should have been more specific. I am trying to access a CF card from a USB card reader. The card has IIGS files saved on it and is formatted with ProDos. I have read the CF card will mount if I have the files I mentioned installed. So even though your advice is good and will work as you say it doesn't solve my problem. I have heard if I have the files I mentioned then I can mount the CF card using MAC OS 9 and below but not MAC OS X. That will work for me but I need the files to do it.If you're running Mac OS 9, you should have all the files needed to read the card *IF* it has a partition map that OS 9 understands.No CF drive for the Apple II that I know of will have a Mac partition map.Yea, but I'd assume that it doesn't have to be a Mac partition map as it should be able to read the CF card the way it's formatted out of the box or by the camera. I'd guess that'd be something MS-DOS related. And I don't know if the various Apple II CF card options make use of a partition map like that. Or heck, I don't even know for certain if there is a partition map on a CF card.
Not if it's supposed to mount it as a ProDOS drive... It's probably willing to mount it as a FAT drive if it is formatted to look like one, but the OP said it was ProDOS-formatted. That means it will either have a proprietary partition table or none at all (implicit partitioning). Unfortunately "partition map" doesn't specify anything about the format of the partition map, since there is no "standard" partition map across all OSs. Come to think of it, maybe that's just as well, since a "universal" partition map format would probably take up 10MB of the disk space and contain Java code! ;-) -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."