[uae] Re: ToDo list
- From: "Keith G. Robertson-Turner" <uae-freelists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:09:56 +0000
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 04:17, Richard Drummond wrote:
> On Friday 12 March 2004 06:41 pm, Jens wrote:
> > Also a good thing, but does it supports nonSCSI devices?? I don't know
> > about many people with real SCSI devices in their macs.
> In theory, the SCSI support should work with OS X as is, but there are
> problems scanning for devices (as you and others have reported). I'm trying
> to source a SCSI writer for my Mac because it doesn't seem to want to work
> with ATAPI devices. They work fine under Linux with this machine, but OS X
> can't seem them for some reason. I think this may be due to crap drivers for
> my ATA card in OS X.
Rich,
I know nothing about OS X, other than what I've heard, specifically that
it isn't a full UNIX implementation and therefore lacks certain
"taken-for-granted" services. Historically, cdrecord uses the [sg]
abstraction to communicate with devices ("real" SCSI or otherwise), but
more recent versions can use the host's native drivers for real SCSI. If
OS X is missing sg, then is it using a proprietary abstraction for ATA?
and if so what? That's the key to the solution.
> > Does anyone use hardfiles greater than 2 GB? I know, the AOA 3.9
> > supports greater sizes, but in my own amiga, I haven't partitions with
> > these sizes.
>
> People do. ;-)
Jens,
Well depending on the underlying filesystem's filesize limitations (not
much of a problem with Linux) and, of course, NSDPatch (and/or SCSI-
Direct) on the client, there shouldn't have to be a limitation beyond
that of the host environment. My A500Plus uses a 21GB drive, and my
A4000T uses 2 37GB drives. I'd certainly welcome the possibility of
transferring either the drives or just the content (via hardfiles) to
the PC. Yes I do have enough storage to cope with that on my PC ... and
more :)
Which reminds me, I meant to get around to compiling a kernel with
support for native Amiga partitions. I wish the guys at Fedora.us would
make that a default config, along with affs.
> > > 7) OpenGL rendering
> > YES YES YES!!! The gfx output is very slow in some configs. My posted
> > config options (below in the mailing list) runs in a great speed, but
> > it shows ugly.
>
> I don't know if the dfference will be great in full-screen mode, but it'll
> certainly make windowed mode a lot faster in OS X.
Can't you hook into Quartz in fullscreen modes? Dunno enough about
Darwin to say?
> > we are hoping to put MacOnLinux/OSX in an AmigaONE machine
Cool!!!
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Regards,
K.
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