Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0.1 questions Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 19:39:21 GMT References: <1991Mar6.181713.5362@nas.nasa.gov> <50005@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 25 In comp.unix.aux, article <50005@apple.Apple.COM>, ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes: < In article <1991Mar6.181713.5362@nas.nasa.gov> lumpkin@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Forrest E. Lumpkin) writes: < > < >1) Will A/UX 2.0.1 resolve the problem( undocumented feature:-) ) < > of only one Mac partition per physical device (hard drive)? < < Well, the trick with patching _HFSDispatch in order to fake multiple < HFS volumes on one single volume has always been a hack, and thus < is not suppored by neither A/UX or MacOS. < ??? Nobody is patching _HFSDispatch here. We're talking about multiple _physical_ partitions. All such a partition needs is an entry in the MacOS drive queue and an update to the A/UX disk driver (".AUXHFSx", for x = 0..7 -- though why there's a driver for ID 7 is beyond me to recognize more than one MacOS partition on any given SCSI device. Lots of MacOS SCSI drivers do this, and there's no hackery involved. All you have to do is continue looking at the partition map beyond the first MacOS partition found. -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49-721-621127(0700-2330) \o)/