Re: [B2-devel] Various issues SheepShaver OSX

[Ronald P. R. <ron...@xs...>]

Well, strange that you do not have the problem. I tried again and mounting CD-ROMs is definitely broken here.

Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, OSX 10.7.4, a CD-ROM mounted in OSX. (This time an ordinary late 90's MacWorld CD with shareware and updates. I tried different CD-ROMs before, among which MacOS install CDs, with identical results.)

Five SheepShaver builds, all five in the same folder and using the same prefs, with MacOS 9.0.4 installed:

1. CVS 2012/02/11
2. CVS 2012/03/28
3. GitHub 2012/06/22
4. GitHub 2012/06/23
5. GitHub 2012/06/28

All five were built using the XCode project, with XCode 3.2.6 in OSX 10.6.8.

When I launch 1 or 2, one can hear the drive reading the CD and the CD appears as expected on the MacOS desktop.

When I launch 3, 4, or 5, the drive remains silent and the CD does not appear on the MacOS desktop.

When I try to first launch and start up SheepShaver and then insert the CD, the CD mounts in both host and guest OS with 1 and 2. With 3, 4, and 5, the CD only mounts in the host OS.

All results are the same regardless whether running these SheepShaver apps in 32-bit mode or in 64-bit mode.


~/.sheepshaver_prefs:

disk MacOSHD.dmg
disk heenenweer+.dmg
cdrom /dev/poll/cdrom
extfs doorgeefluik
screen win/1280/800
windowmodes 0
screenmodes 0
seriala /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem
serialb /dev/null
rom Mac OS ROM
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
ramsize 536870912
frameskip 1
gfxaccel true
nocdrom false
nonet false
nosound false
nogui true
noclipconversion false
ignoresegv true
jit true
jit68k false
keyboardtype 5
ether slirp
keycodes true
keycodefile keycodes
mousewheelmode 0
mousewheellines 0
dsp /dev/dsp
mixer /dev/mixer
ignoresegv true
idlewait true


So what can be different between your setup and mine that could explain why you do not see the problem and I do?

Ronald.


Op 29 jun. 2012, om 02:06 heeft Robert Munafo het volgende geschreven:

> 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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