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altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes) writes:

>In article <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:

>>4. Has anyone noticed this "bug" in the Morley SCSIFS :
[...]
>>   Morley claims that the drive must be mounted each time the user clicks
>>   on the iconbar.  But ADFS doesn't mount the disc...
>>   Can anyone shed some light on this.  Is the behaviour of the Morley card
>>   normal ?
>It's the way morley do it - obviously they execute a dir or similar command
>to mount the disk, whereas the best way of causing filecore to mount the
>disk but not set the CSD is to do something like read the attributes of
>the $ directory object (what our filers do). I didn't know the morley
>software did it, I'll shout at Gary today, I have to call him anyway....

It's possible I'm being very thick here, but what's the problem with just
issuing a Message_FilerOpenDir at the root of the relevant disc and letting
FileCore sort the mess out?

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