Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!justin From: justin@Apple.COM (Justin Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Help with SysQuest drive. Message-ID: <43849@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 10 Aug 90 19:27:29 GMT References: <1088100001@cdp> <43800@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 52 In article urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >In comp.unix.aux, article <43800@apple.Apple.COM>, > blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) writes: >< unger@cdp.UUCP writes: > ... >- How do I re-mount a cartridge (or mount another one) without restarting the >MacOS environment? This is a major pain! The Finder recognizes floppy disks >without problem Alas, A/UX currently does not recognize "insertion events" on other than floppy drives. >(BTW: Why is the default for a valid Macintosh floppy >"A/UX data" while an invalid floppy, presumably containing a file system, can >only be ejected or formatted? Switching to the CommandShell "fixes" that >problem, but it's still (a) a major pain and (b) needlessly modal because the >Shell doesn't recognize HFS floppies as such...) > I tried calling Mount (from the MPW Shell ;-) but all I got was an I/O >error. (The drive number was correct...) I didn't yet try posting a disk >inserted event; would that help? (I doubt it. :-( ) The search for the "correct" behavior on insert events is fraught with pitfalls. After a lot of discussion, we felt that a good compromise was to leave the behavior as is for Mac Apps, and for CommandShell, make the assumption that the new floppy is intended as an A/UX disk (e.g., Tar, file system, ...). Thus the default behavior is Mac-ish when you are dealing with a Mac App, and accounts for the Unix possibilities when dealing with CommandShell. The behavior is the same in either case if the disk is unreadable: you get to format or eject it. If it doesn't work this way for you, let us know. >Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de >Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49+721+621127(Voice)/621227(PEP) Regards, Justin Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large (justin@apple.com) * A/UX Group *------------------| Apple Computer, Inc. | When meetings are outlawed, 10440 Bubb Rd, | Only outlaws will have meetings Cupertino, CA 95014 * -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large (justin@apple.com) * A/UX Group *------------------| Apple Computer, Inc. | When meetings are outlawed, 10440 Bubb Rd, | Only outlaws will have meetings Cupertino, CA 95014 *