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From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: raw read/write floppies
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Date: 20 Mar 91 16:20:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: reb@cs.brown.edu's message of 19 Mar 91 23:02:30 GMT

In article <69144@brunix.UUCP> reb@cs.brown.edu (Robert E. Brown) writes:

   Mac to mount the disk.  How can I turn off the auto-mounting?  Once my
   program has finished reading and writing the disk, how do I eject it?
   At this point, the disk is not mounted.  Will PBeject work anyway?

You have to override using the driver to do that (the same way as
you would read an MS-DOS floppy)

But how do you propose to read/write to the floppy if you haven't
mounted it ? Normal read/write calls won't do...

What _I_ want is an utility that runs under MacOS that reads/writes
tar floppies (or cpio, or just plan _files_) to be used from A/UX.

Happy hacking,

						h+@nada.kth.se
						Jon W{tte
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