#ShapeShifter questions
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"Also, is there any way to get SS to use the same hd partition as my Emplant? I
select DH1 in the volume chooser, but it just tells me that it's not a DOS
disk."
Yes you can Paul, I used the Emplant partition for a few weeks with
ShapeShifter until I removed the Emplant board. What you need to use is the
Emplant's "MAC_HDSetup" program. This is the information that I got on my
ShapeShifter partition:
Device: DHN
Surfaces: 8
LoCyl: 590 HiCyl: 4895
Blocks Per Track: 63
Mac Boot Block: 297360
Drive Type: AmigaHD w/Mac Data
Bootable Partition
And this is what is set up for DeviceDisk 1 in ShapeShifter:
scsi.device Unit: 0
First Sector: 297360 (The Mac Boot Block in the above information)
Number of Sectors: 2170224 (see below for details)
Maximum transfer size: 130560 (MaxTrans for a Amiga IDE device)
To get the Number of Sectors for ShapeShifters devicedisk:
((HiCyl – LowCyl)+1) x Surfaces x BlocksPerTrack
So ((4895 – 590) + 1) x 8 x 63
4306 x 8 = 34448 x 63 = 2170224 and there you have it!
The Maximum transfer size is just the MaxTransfer setting for that particular
partition and you can get it by using HDToolBox to find out what it is
currently set at. For my IDE drive it is set for $1FE00 so in decimal that
works out to 130560.
Hope this helps you and other Emplant users that want to take ShapeShifter for
a spin but don't want to start from scratch. If you have any questions, feel
free to ask.
// John (Warp 4040 & ShapeShifter Quadra 840)
\X/ jgager@BMI.NET
John-
Thanks! One puzzling thing, though. Jim Drew told me that SS would trash
Emplant's Mac partition due to differing PROM setups. I take it this isn't
correct?
Mr. Zombie
"Thanks! One puzzling thing, though. Jim Drew told me that SS would trash
Emplant's Mac partition due to differing PROM setups. I take it this isn't
correct?"
The only problem I saw after using ShapeShifter on the Emplant's partition was
that my monitor color settings would be reversed. If I set up ShapeShifter for
256 color, it would be greyscale when using the Emplant, and vice versa. Now
keep in mind that I was using the Emplant's partition when ShapeShifter first
came out so it may have changed since then. Just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt
to back up your Emplant partition, and then start over with a SS partition. I
wouldn't want you to blame me for trashing your MAC <g>.
// John (Warp 4040 & ShapeShifter Quadra 840)
\X/ jgager@BMI.NET
John-
Sadly, this method did not work. SS got part way through booting off my
Emplant partition, and then locked up. I have Symbion installed, which shows
all extensions etc. that are loaded as they are loaded, with their memory usage
(I also tried with everything except bare system stuff disabled) and SS stopped
booting early in the progress indicatory, while the bar was still way over to
the left.
Symbiont showed the Suitcase, but nothing after it, and while the mousepointer
would move around, nothing else happened, and Alt-lShift-Ctrl-Escape didn't
quit. LocalTalk is what comes right after Suitcase, but I didn't see anywhere
to disable this.
Any ideas?
Mr. Zombie
okay it don't support local talk take it out of your system folder
..it supports ethertalk and ami mactcp