Adding support for Apple File Systems to Linux

David E A Wilson (david@cs.uow.edu.au)
Wed, 28 Jun 1995 10:41:48 +1000 (EST)


I am interested in adding support for reading Apple disks on my Linux box
(I am an Apple // user from way back and at work we have a lot of Macs).

I have planned it as follows:

1) Add support for Apple partitioning of SCSI HDs and CD-ROMs.
2) Write a Read-Only ProDOS fs handler.
3) Make 2) Read-Write.
4) Write a Read-Only HFS fs handler.
5) Make 4) Read-Write.

At the moment I am still working on step 1. I have a number of Mac and Apple //
CD-ROMs to use as sample file systems. I have written user programs to
read the partition table successfully but modifying genhd.c looks interesting.
At the moment CDs are explictly denied partitions. Is this because ISO CDs can
only have a single partition. It appears that the SCSI driver has its own code
for handling PC partitions - why is it not in a common file with the IDE/MFM
disk partition code?

Is there anyone out there who would be interested in working on this with me?

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David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au