HFS Discs and Amiga
5 messages in this thread
I've been working on my follow-up CD-ROM article… I've uncovered an
incredible development. Two Amiga companies will be releasing CD-ROM
drivers (soon) that can read Mac HFS discs. I've been playing with one
here, it works fine… I dropped in a Mac developer CD and 'dir opt a'
recoursed through the entire disc. This will open up a wide world of discs
for the Amiga. Try that on your PC! I'm not aware of another system that
can handle HFS discs, beyond the Mac. 🙂 Do any of the Unix CD-ROM
drivers do this?
There hasn't been any need (so far) for other cpus to read HFS discs. On a
pc, it could be done by calling the extensions driver to read at the sector
level. I have read mac discs on my 8 bit Atari cpu with a Hitachi drive.
The drive doesn't care, data is data. What do you do with the Mac files
after reading them?
John, a driver I'm working on for the Atari ST can also do the Mac HFS
stuff.
There are the Rock Ridge extensions for UNIX/POSIX CD-ROM drives. Young
Minds has drivers for a few different platforms. Rock Ridge will handle
all of the UNIX file system features, permissions, user and owner ids, unix
path names and much more.