A/UX 2.0.1 questions

[Matthias Urlichs]

In comp.unix.aux, article <50005 at apple.Apple.COM>,
  ksand at Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes:
< In article <1991Mar6.181713.5362 at nas.nasa.gov> lumpkin at amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Forrest E. Lumpkin) writes:
< >
< >1) Will A/UX 2.0.1 resolve the problem( undocumented feature:-) )
< >   of only one Mac partition per physical device (hard drive)?
< 
< Well, the trick with patching _HFSDispatch in order to fake multiple
< HFS volumes on one single volume has always been a hack, and thus
< is not suppored by neither A/UX or MacOS.
< 
???

Nobody is patching _HFSDispatch here. We're talking about multiple _physical_
partitions. All such a partition needs is an entry in the MacOS drive queue
and an update to the A/UX disk driver (".AUXHFSx", for x = 0..7 -- though why
there's a driver for ID 7 is beyond me to recognize more than one MacOS
partition on any given SCSI device.
Lots of MacOS SCSI drivers do this, and there's no hackery involved.
All you have to do is continue looking at the partition map beyond the first
MacOS partition found.

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