SoftMac Manual

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The Balance Of Judgement
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Post by The Balance Of Judgement »

See if you can find the funny spelling mistake here:

Booting from an external Mac hard disk or ZIP disk

If you took my advice and created a bootable Mac OS hard disk or ZIP disk on your Macintosh, now is the time to tell SoftMac about it. Click on the Disk Properties menu in SoftMac to configure the Mac disk devices. If booting from Mac boot floppy, make sure that the first Mac floppy disk device in the dialog box is mapped to the PC's A: drive (or B: drive depending on how your PC maps the floppy disk drives). An LS-120 Superdisk drive is NOT a regular floppy disk drives but is actually treated as a SCSI device and you should map the floppy to the appropriate SCSI device. You will need to have ASPI installed as well.

External SCSI hard disks should be mounted as SCSI device 0 in the dialog box. CD-ROM drives should be mounted as SCSI device 1 or higher. Mac OS does not correctly handle a CD-ROM drive at SCSI ID 0.

Booting from an .HFX or .IMG file

SoftMac does support disk volume images created on the Macintosh (.IMG, .HFX, and .HFV files) and true SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM disk image files created by Gemulator Explorer (.DSK and .CD files). The disk volume images created on the Macintosh are not true SCSI disk images (as they lack the boot sector, partition map, and other critical disk sector). Therefore they must be mounted as floppy disk devices. The Mac OS will simply see them as large floppy disks, regardless of the size.

True SCSI disk image files (the .DSK or .CD files created by Gemulator Explorer) can be mounted as SCSI devices and SoftMac will treat them as suck. Be sure to specify in the dialog box whether the SCSI disk image is to be treated as a normal hard disk or as a CD-ROM. You will get strange behavior if you mount a CD as a hard disk for example.
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Post by Mac Emu »

True SCSI disk image files suck anyway even if SoftMac treats them as suck. Strange behavior indeed. (Thanks!) :wink:
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