Comments on: Reading .toast image files

By: Vincenzo Daneu

Vincenzo Daneu — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 16:45:06 +0000

In reply to calvin.

Calvin:

This sounds very appealing. Could you supply an example for a properly written ““cdrom” directive’s argument”? I assume this would be included in the BasiliskII_prefs text file. Currently, my “cdrom” line there says “cdrom G:\”. If “Image” were the name of my data ISO image, how should the new line read ?
So far, NO success in reading any Mac CD or other Mac data other than through “My Computer”, and that only for binhex-encoded files.
Thanks in advance for any help. I am illiterate in Windows AND modern Macs, and have only used Diskcopy for imaging data.

Vincenzo (” Legacy “)

BIIbuild 142, Windows 7 32 bit on an HP mini 210-1142CL

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:59:11 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

That might be easiest.
For Windows, I’m hoping I’ll have some time soon to hack in a call to DeviceIoControl to get the physical drive geometry:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363147%28VS.85%29.aspx

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:34:32 +0000

In reply to Peter Godwin.

Wow that’s great!

I was thinking the other day that I should do something to allow geometry override… I guess if you know it, it’ll be easy. I just didn’t see an easy way to detect it.

Since you are user #1 on physical media access, I guess you’d be ok with heads sectors per track, cylinders…?

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:56:17 +0000

Just an FYI – I’ve been testing the physical drive passthrough and it works fairly well!

The screenshot below shows a SyQuest drive mounted!
https://i.imgur.com/DKRN8KS.png

I’ve tried a SCSI ZIP drive and the SyQuest IDE so far – Windows does all the SCSI translation on the IDE one by the looks. The only issue is that it reports 0 cylinders – it’s good enough to boot from and copy files between, but means the disk must already been HFS partitioned and formatted.

My config for anyone that’s interested:

screen win/800/600
ether slirp
rom Quadra800.rom
bootdrive 4
bootdriver -33
ramsize 67108864
frameskip 1
modelid 29
cpu 4
fpu false
nocdrom false
nosound false
nogui false
idlewait false
disk Transfer.hfv
scsi4 scsi0.disk
#Syquest IDE drive
scsi5 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1
scsi6 CDutils.iso
#

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:21:21 +0000

In reply to Florian. vpsland was kind enough to provide me with images. :)

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:01:13 +0000

In reply to Florian. I just got it up on source forge, try that!

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:03:34 +0000

In reply to Florian. Too soon. Link didn't work.

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:02:20 +0000

In reply to Florian. Nevermind, Found it.

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:55:15 +0000

Is that Darwin 0.3 toast image available somewhere?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 01:28:57 +0000

In reply to Nathan. Also this wont work for multisession CD-ROMs.