AmiCD File System

Information in this page updated: 23 Sep 95


Author:
Nicola Salmoria MC6489@mclink.it
Software type:
???
Purpose:
AmiCDFileSystem is a file system which can read: ISO-9660 (w/ RockRidge extensions) and Macintosh HFS CD-ROMs and Macintosh HFS floppy and hard disks
Drives know to work with it:
???
Other software required:
???
Other hardware required:
(CD Drive)
Sources included:
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File in ftp.luth.se:
amicdfs.lha

.readme file from aminet/disk/cdrom

Short:    CDROM fs, also reads Mac floppy & hd
Author:   MC6489@mclink.it (Nicola Salmoria)
Uploader: MC6489@mclink.it (Nicola Salmoria)
Type:     disk/cdrom

AmiCDFileSystem is a file system which can read:

- ISO-9660 (w/ RockRidge extensions) and Macintosh HFS CD-ROMs
- Macintosh HFS floppy and hard disks

The ability to read Macintosh floppy and hard disks comes for free, since
they use the same file system used for HFS CD-ROMs.

This program was originally based on AmiCDROM 1.9 by Frank Munkert. While the
file system functions are mostly the original ones, I completely rewrote the
packet handling routines.

This file system can be installed on the Rigid Disk Block (RDB) of an hard
disk to automatically mount a Mac partition (you can even boot from it, if
you manage to put the necessary Amiga system files in it).

The code is reentrant and is shared among multiple instances of the file
system. This means that if you use AmiCDFileSystem on a CD-ROM drive, a
magneto-optical drive, two floppy drives and two hard disk partitions, like
a friend of mine does, only one copy will be loaded instead of six - saving
100K of memory.


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