SheepShaver file access

[Devin Asay]

On May 20, 2008, at 3:16 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Ken Ray wrote:
>>> Giving up on that, I have been dismounting the shared drive, copying
>>> files to it, and then restarting the SheepShaver virtual machine in
>>> order to re-mount the shared drive. This is a pain in the  
>>> patootie. Does
>>> anyone remember how to re-mount a drive in OS 9 without  
>>> restarting the
>>> OS?  I'd rather have file sharing working, but at least if I could
>>> remount the shared drive that would be something.
>> My understanding (and based on corresponding reports is displayed at
>> http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env006.htm) is  
>> that
>> attempting to keep the same volume shared in SheepShaver that's  
>> accessible
>> in OS X is prone to bugginess and in come cases the corruption of  
>> the shared
>> volume.
>
> Right, so I was dismounting the volume in SS before working with it  
> in OS X. It wasn't open in both places at once. The shared volume  
> didn't corrupt, but I'm tired of having to restart OS 9 to remount  
> it. I'm just now looking for an OS 9 utility that will mount a  
> volume but I can't find one. How did we used to do that? Or did we  
> used to do that? It's been so long I can't remember.

Wasn't there a utility at one time called SCSI Tool? Seems to me it  
would unmount or remount any drive. Of course, that would mean that  
SS would have to be using SCSI emulation to access drives. Sorry, the  
cobwebs are pretty thick in that part of my brain... :-/

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University