Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: cgould@oracle.uucp (Colin A. Gould)
Subject: Re: AMAX->SyQuest
Keywords: SyQuest AMAX Mac
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:05:29 GMT
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In article <1992Dec13.050433.21448@netcom.com> tres@netcom.com (Gary Chow) writes:
>In article <12DEC199200561569@sigma.tamu.edu> tww2568@sigma.tamu.edu (WEEKS, THOMAS WILLIAM) writes:
>>So if you format the SyQuest as a 'real' Mac cartridge.. how will the SCSI
>>interface SEE teh Amigados device AMAX0: ???  ..
>>
>>I am using an A500 SeriesII and right now, the way Amax SEES the drive is by
>>having the AmigaDos device AMAX0:...  If you format it on a Mac, you will not
>>have the Commodore RDB block, telling AmigaDos (or Amax) that the device AMAX0:
>>even exists...
>>
>
>In order to obtain a SyQuest cartridge that can be both read/written to
>on both platforms (Amax & MAC),  you would first need to format the
>SyQuest cartridge on a REAL Mac using DiskManagerMac.  DiskManagerMac
>may be purchased separately and is compatible with the driver in AMAX
>Next copy the DiskManagerMac INIT from the disk to your system folder,
>when AMAX boots up, the SyQuest will be automatically mounted.  The
>drawback is that, the cartridge cannot boot.  You would partition a
>small boot off your main harddrive, and use the SyQuest as a transporting
>medium.

Actually, the best & easiest thing to do I've found is to indeed
format the Syquest on a real Mac (using DiskManagerMac, or something,
I think that's what I have; it came with my syquest, since I bought it
from a Mac mailorder place), and make it a full boot disk (install
driver, System folder, etc.) with the driver installed, you do not
need the INIT.

Yes, you _do_ have to do something to get amax to recognize the HD
though. Simple. (this is documented in the manual... :-) Just make a
fake
mountlist entry, with a name like AMAX:, and the name of your scsi
device, and all null entries after that. Having null entries doesn't
actually mount anything, so no DH3:#&*^#% yucky WB icons, like if you
do an amiga partition, and you also can't format it by mistake, and
making the cartridge a real mac cartridge lets you take it to anyone's
Mac (great for transporting DTP stuff.) Just make an entry like the
following (I have a 3000, so my scsi device is scsi.device)

AMAX:	device=scsi.device
	MinCyl = 0; MaxCyl = 0
	mount = 0
#
etc. I don't have my mountlist in front of me, so you'll have to check
the exact keywords etc., but it should be close. you may have to add
some other things like globvec or filesystem or something, but just
copy an existing entry and null out everything to 0.
Then just MOUNT AMAX: in your startup-sequence and away you go. :-)
Colin

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