Re: [NTLK] ATA News (was: Re: Dreaming of the ATA driver....)

From: Brian McEwen (bmcewen_at_cowboy.net)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 10:45:48 PDT


On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> Why giving up on HFS partition support? Suppose I have a PowerBook and
> initialize an ATA card in it. It certainly would be nice if I could
> access the HFS partition from the Newton, if this is at all possible. If
> the HFS partition was seen as a regular Newton store, then we could
> bypass NCU or any other utility completely for package installation.
> Plus, if somebody ever comes with a data browser/backup utility, able to

Perhaps one could get PcExchange or similar, already provided with MacOS,
to access the FAT partition on the card? (Thomas Templemann (sorry if I
mangled the last name) might just need to changes some hooks for his CD
filesystem extensions :) (well that's Joliet but you get my drift...).

B

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