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From: sramtrc@windy.dsir.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0.1 questions (multiple MacOS partitions)
Message-ID: <18857.27e3cdef@windy.dsir.govt.nz>
Date: 17 Mar 91 20:13:34 GMT
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Reply-To: sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz
Organization: DSIR, Wellington, New Zealand
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> < >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
> 
I have a program that does all this stuff to allow multiple Mac partitions
per physical drive. If anyone wants a copy I can send it to them. I will
be releasing it later anyway. I just need to think up an icon for it. It
doesn't use any hackery, just a bit of quackery.

Tony Cooper
sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz