nagrogin@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Norman Andrew Grogin) (08/31/90)
Background Info: I've got an 80M HD with 3 partitions. I'm running
System 6.0.5 and Finder 6.1.5 on a variety of machines (SE,SE/30, Mac
II) all with 2.5 or more meg of RAM. Back when I got the hard disk, I filled
the partitions with general stuff, fonts/sounds/DA's, and system goodies
respectively...
First Problem: The disk will only boot off the first partition. I called
tech support at the HD company but they couldn't clear it up. As my 3rd
partition was the one w/ system software, I had to get around the problem by
squeezing a barebones system folder onto the 1st partition and using an INIT
called INITshare to access the system software on my other partition.
This seems to work fairly well, but...
Second Problem: Just about all INIT's and CDEVs I've been playing with have
been blind to the host of goodies in the third partition "system folder"
(which has no system or finder) and see only the contents of the bona fide
system folder on the first partition.
I suppose I could do things the hard way and repartition the thing or move
everything around for hours and hours, but software such as Suitcase and
INITshare make me believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel...
Pie in the Sky: With all this in mind, what I'd like to end up with is:
1. A system which will play sounds in conjunction with system events in the manner of SoundMaster, SndControl, or Finder Sounds.
2. Optional randomization of sounds from startup to startup as offered
by such packages as BeepShuffle, SwithchBeep, Randomizer, SSSwitcher or
SndControl.
3. Ability to access sounds (right now i've got them as resource files
such as "Startup Sounds" which i've created using SoundMover - but i'm
flexible...) which are not in the system folder but are on another
partition in the manner of Suitcase, MasterJuggler, or INITshare.
I'd rather not just have one big soup of sounds- I'd prefer to keep
context-specific sounds differentiated as I have it now. This of course
is a very tall order, but I haven't abandoned all hope yet because all
of the aforementioned products satisfy in part or almost in full what
I'm looking for. For example, using SoundMaster with Randomizer
appears to meet all my needs, except that SoundMaster will only look on
the drive (or partition, in my case) containing the system folder.
Alternately, SndControl works quite well with randomizing sound resource
files, but it will only look for them in the real system folder. It has no
problem seeing sounds on other partitions that are accessed with Suitcase, but
viewing them in this manner jumbles them all together, sacrificing both
differentiation and randomizability.
If anyone out there has surmounted similar obstacles or can otherwise
shed some light on this problem, please reply via email.
I would be happy to summarize replies if interest exists.
Thanks in advance,
Norm Grogin
nagrogin@phoenix.princeton.edu
Disclaimer: I have no company to represent. The buck stops here.
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