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From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 for the Mac and Novell Netware...
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Message-ID: <1991Apr12.203756.3939@MDI.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 91 20:37:56 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.195758.26515@novell.com> brianb@wc.novell.com (Brian Bulkowski) writes:
>Hi Guys:
>Good to see that people are using Mac products. The same problem 
>exists with NetWare for Mac 3.0 (what works with OS 3.11). It is
>*APPLE'S PROBLEM*. Really now, I wouldn't say it if it wasn't
>true. It has to do with the number of volumes, system 7 won't
>accept a volume ID of 0, which is what we return for the SYS volume.
>All previous Apple systems allowed volume IDs to start at 0.
>Sooooo ... Apple will (supposedly) fix this in the next version of
>system 7.
>
>Have a good one!
>brianb
>brianb@wc.novell.com

This is bologna. Netware 3.0 just recently went out. Novell has had
System 7 in beta form since at least October. They should have seen
the problem A LONG TIME AGO. It would have been a simple fix to resolve
the problem before 3.0 went out the door. I guess it is just easier for
them to try to reflect the problem back on Apple. Now, as far as volume IDs,
Apple published recommended methods for obtaining a new volume id to
mount a volume with. The notes described a method for searching the volume
table for free entries. None of the notes showed the use of volume 0, they
all started counting at -1, going down (the index into the volume table
is the 2s complement of this number; thus volume -1 has an index of 0).

Flame on>

It is disgusting for developers to receive all kinds of information from
Apple on what they should and shouldn't do (I've seen the info - I get it
too!), then go off and invent their own way, ignoring Apple's info, then try
to blame the resulting mess on Apple.  Maybe they are just used to getting
away with it in the DOS world.

Flame off>

Jack Brindle
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