Make sure the MultiMounter Extension is in the Extensions Folder and is controlling the drive. See if you can mount a Mac disk. If you can, then click once on the icon for the Mac cartridge and hit CMND-I (Get Info) look in the "Where" field, it should show you what driver is controlling the device right after the SCSI ID number.
Zip and Jaz drives are controlled by the Iomega Driver extension. Turn this off, but don't trash it since Iomega Tools requires their own driver. You'll need to turn Iomega Driver back on and restart to use the Tools.
The DOS Mounter 98 demo is only a control panel. The MultiMounter extension functionality is included in the control panel. Since extensions load before the control panels, all the drivers in the extension folder should be turned off while trying the demo.
DOS Mounter only supports SCSI drives. It doesn't support IDE Zip drives in G3 machines.
In the finder, choose "Special" from the menu bar and select "Erase Disk" in the erase disk dialog there will now be an option for "Mac or DOS" just select DOS and format just as you would a Mac floppy.
Zip and Jaz drives are controlled by the Iomega Driver extension. Turn this off, but don't trash it since Iomega Tools requires their own driver. You'll need to turn Iomega Driver back on and restart to use the Tools.
If the MultiMounter extension loads after the Apple CD-ROM extension, then MultiMounter kills the CD-ROM driver. We will be fixing this in the next release, but the workaround is easy. Placing a space before the name "MultiMounter" will cause it to load alphabetically before Apple CD-ROM. If MultiMounter loads first, then Apple CD-ROM loads successfully and all the drives have drivers.
The * symbol was left out of the error symbols on page 50 of the manual. The * on the extension at startup means that after the extension loaded and checked for devices to support it found more devices than it has memory to deal with, it then allocates more memory to itself and posts the * symbol to tell you that you need to restart for the changes to take effect. You should only have to restart once but sometimes (if you just added 5 or 6 devices) you may have to restart two or maybe even three time to get everything taken care of.
This means that there was already a driver preloaded at startup. Usually this means that there is either another extension that is getting control of the drive or that there is a disk in the drive and it already has its own driver. If it already has a driver written on the drive then you may want to make sure that this driver is an updated one. If the SCSI ID for that drive shows that the drive is an internal Mac drive then that is ok - your startup drive and internal Mac drives have their own drivers stored on them so that you can boot off of them.
DOS Mounter only supports block-addressable, writable media. CD-ROM's, being read-only, are not supported by DOS Mounter.
There is no such thing as a DOS CD-ROM. The CD-ROM's for the IBM PC use an ISO 9660 layout, and this layout is recognized by most CD-ROM extensions. This does not mean that DOS applications can be run from an ISO 9660 CD-ROM, the files will just be accessible.
ISO 9660 does not support Windows 95 long filenames so Microsoft wrote an expansion to it called Joliet. Apple's Foreign File Access extension does not yet recognize Microsoft's expansion so Macs can only read eight character names on CD-ROM.
No. DOS Mounter does not translate files. It is a file transfer utility, allowing DOS volumes to be seen on the Macintosh. It is the responsibility of the application trying to open the file to perform any conversions. In the above case, it very well might work. Certain versions of Word for Windows can be opened using converters supplied with WordPerfect for Macintosh. Check your application's manual for further details on what files it can open.
No. This is a limitation of the Macintosh OS.
Apple has reserved a proprietary section of the Mac OS for handling DOS Compatibility cards. As a result, DOS Mounter will not be able to mount DOS floppies when accessed through DOS compatibility mode. Onl;y PC Exchange can work with DOS Compatibility Cards.
Last updated 3/24/99