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Sorry - if I had known I wouldn't have taken your idea and made an application. I feel like I've rained on your parade



I'd go along with all of that from the testing I've done so far. I do have one question though. Is the main harddisc always called 'Macintosh HD' regardless of the langauge configured. I'm using the 'Macintosh' part of the title as a filter to prevent a user getting access to it. Obviously if it's called something else on some non-English machines then the filter won't work.



That's clever - what happens on the RISC OS side when a user tries to open the dmg file?



Yep

External FDD arrived. I've tried it with Impression disk 1. Nothing at all on RISC OS, the Mac side says "The disk you inserted was not recognized by this computer". The FDD does not show up in Disk Utility, although I suspect this is because it does not recognize the disk.

I'll try the FDD on my wife's laptop, which also has VRPC on it.

Curioser and curioser.

It doesn't work on DrivePop either - "Disk has not been formatted". I've tried it with three Impression disks.

Worried that the new drive might have damaged my disks, I tried one in the Iyonix and it worked perfectly.

I'll try some different disks and report back.

Mac OS X cannot read Acorn format floopy discs - it can only read DOS formatted floppies - hece MacPop can only read Dos formatted discs (because all it does is present devices on the Mac to RISC OS).

The "The disk you inserted was not recognized by this computer" message means the floppy drive won't appear in MacOS X as only media, not devices, appear.

Note that DrivePop (on a Windows VRPC) won't be able to read an Acorn format disc for similar reasons.

Thanks to Kees and Aaron for this simple way to connect to other Volumes on the Mac. I can confirm that it works fine here with all my HD, iDisk, Network drives, USB sticks, etc. One nice refinement would be to have a menu item to dismount any drive too. The command *unmount 'name of mount' works for me, but this should be in the icon menu.

Whilst you may realise this, for clarification to others, I'm sure what Kees meant when he said be careful otherwise you can mess up your Mac, was that since you have your Mac root drive mounted and accessible in RISC OS including hidden files, if you alter anything in a Mac System or Library Folder for example, it could prevent the Mac from working or booting. So best to stick to the public or shared folders.

BTW Aaron, I don't think a filter on 'Macintosh HD' would work that well since you can change that name if you wish and it could be almost anything. For instance, all my Macs have root HD names that are different. What about the 'root' name as underneath it is always the root I think.

Roy

|I'm hoping to get some time to work on an improved version that will be able to correctly "mask" out the main Mac OS X Harddisc - Kees came up with a method of doing this which seems to work very nicely