Re: CFFA card and the Mac

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Wolfgang" <w@work.com> wrote in message news:ekmtsg$21$1@home.itg.ti.com...
> Simon D. Williams wrote:
>> Wolfgang wrote:
>>
>>>Hi everyone,
>>>I got recently my CFFA card and I am more than happy with it.
>>>I had no problem to plug in a high speed 2GB Card and with the special
>>>IIgs driver I can address all of it.
>>>
>>>Now to my problem, I do not have a modern PC I use Apple products.
>>>Is there anything like ciderpress where I can read and write the MMC
>>>card directly from the Mac?
>>>Right now I transfer .shk archives from the Mac via Ethernet to my
>>>Macintosh and then via Apple talk too my IIgs.
>>>Works flawless but is slow.
>>>Plugging the MMC card into a cardreader on the Mac and dump the files
>>>directly would be much nicer.
>>
>>
>> You might try using the CF as a "shared volume" in Bernie ][ The Rescue
>> (IIgs emulator)... not sure if any OSX-native emulators have that
>> feature.
>>
>> You might also take a look at ADFS... I think there's an OSX version,
>> but I don't recall if it works with CF.
>>
> ADFS is a great tool and I use it a lot but you can only open volumes 
> which are mounted.
>
> The whole point seems to be the mounting of the prodos formatted MMC.
> As of the best of my knowledge OSX has no support for PRODOS but OS9 might 
> has.(Have the dual core Macs still OS9 ?)
>

Nope. Apple dropped all Classic support on intel macs.

-Greg

> I will try this night to do a UNIX mount and also try to mount it under 
> OS9.
>
> By the way, what about using X11?
> Is there any Linux tool which can work on the Prodos MMC's ?
>
> Thanks for the input at least I have something to try :-)
>
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