Disks want to be initialized, crashing if sound is enabled.

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Melonking
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Disks want to be initialized, crashing if sound is enabled.

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EDIT: Disk issue is solved, using disk utility to make the iso instead of terminal ^^

I just setup sheep with MacOS 9.0.4 on Windows 8.1 64bit for the most part everything works perfectly, except for 2 things.

Mac CD-ROMs are unrecognized and want to be initialized. I tried an audio CD and it loaded in just fine. I also tried making an iso on an older Mac dekstop of the CD-ROM and loading that, but it also wanted to be initialized.

If I enable sound output the system freezes just after starting up. I tried removing the Apple Audio Extension, but that had no effect.

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disk C:\Users\Daniel\Desktop\SheepShaver\MacintoshHD
cdrom E:\
extfs 
screen dga/0/0
windowmodes 3
screenmodes 63
seriala COM1
serialb COM2
rom C:\Users\Daniel\Desktop\SheepShaver\newworld86.rom
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
ramsize 536870912
frameskip 1
gfxaccel true
nocdrom false
nonet false
nosound true
nogui false
noclipconversion false
ignoresegv false
ignoreillegal false
jit true
jit68k true
keyboardtype 5
ether slirp
keycodes false
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
ignoresegv false
idlewait false
keycodes false
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
enableextfs true
debugextfs false
extdrives CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
pollmedia true
etherpermanentaddress true
ethermulticastmode 0
routerenabled false
ftp_port_list 21
portfile0 C:\B2TEMP0.OUT
portfile1 C:\B2TEMP1.OUT
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Re: Disks want to be initialized, crashing if sound is enabl

Post by kataetheweirdo »

I'm not so certain about the sound, but I did find a workaround for the CD-ROMs (sort of). I used HxD to extract a CD-ROM's contents by opening the CD drive through HxD and saving the contents onto the hard drive. It seems a little excessive to use a hex editor, but that worked for me.

The CD-ROM driver to recognize Mac CDs is designed for 32-bit Windows systems, but not 64-bit ones. It would take a bit of time to get it fully working for 64-bit systems. There are third-party programs designed to read Mac CD-ROMs, but most of them need to be paid for in order to get rid of a time limit or allow full functionality.
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Re: Disks want to be initialized, crashing if sound is enabl

Post by adespoton »

You can also cat the drive from the command line, can't you? That's how I've always done it under older OSes.
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