Re: [B2-devel] Various issues SheepShaver OSX

[Robert M. <mr...@gm...>]

On 6/28/12, Ronald P. Regensburg <ron...@xs...> wrote:
> An important issue is that SheepShaver OSX appears to have lost the ability
> to mount CD-ROMs sometime in the past few months.

The only change we made in the past few months was to fix a bug with
ejecting: If you have "nocdrom true" in your .sheepshaver_prefs file,
then it grabbed onto the CD-ROM anyway (even though it made no attempt
to notify the guest OS that the media was present) and so when you
tried to eject the CD-ROM, the host (Mac OS X) would refuse to eject
it. I discovered the fix on April 14th, and notified the other
developers on the 21st. It was added to CVS on April 21st or 22nd.

Sheepshaver still mounts CD-ROMs just fine, at least it does for me,
provided you have "cdrom /dev/poll/cdrom" and "nocdrom false" in your
.sheepshaver_prefs (and no other lines containing "cdrom"). Example:
CodeWarrior Pro version 3 MacOS Tools (the CD-ROM containing the
CodeWarrior IDE, headers and libraries). Not only does it mount, but I
can repeatedly unmount (by dragging to the trash in the guest OS) and
re-mount the CD-ROM (by re-inserting it), and the CD-ROM shows up on
the desktop in the host OS's Finder as well. Furthermore, this
functionality works equally well in an older SheepShaver from November
2010.

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