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Re: Magneto optical drives and other issues
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On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Stephen Su wrote:
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:45:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Stephen Su <ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu>
> To: Executor Mailing List <executor@nacm.com>
> Subject: Re: Magneto optical drives and other issues
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, zinc wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Stephen Su wrote:
> >
>
> It seems like there should still be a way around it. CDROM drivers for
> DOS/Win machines (proprietary, ATAPI, and SCSI) all work with Mac
> formatted CDROMs, even though the DOS drivers weren't written with the Mac
> format in mind. The same thing's true about BIOSes and ASPI drivers with
> regards to SCSI hard drives. I don't know anything about how Executor
> manages to read Mac media on PC hardware, so I'll defer to ARDI to say
> whether this is an Executor limitation or driver limitation. (BTW, I'm
> using ADVASPI.SYS from Advansys and UNI_ASP.SYS from Corel SCSI 2.0 as
> the drivers in DOS/Win 3.1.)
i guess i was not totally clear. the driver for the DOS machine can't
read the Mac _file system_ and, the Mac init cannot read the DOS file
system.
the CD-ROM file system, however is a standard, something like ISO-9600 or
something like that. thus, mac's and DOS machines can (sort of)
interoperate with these, as long as the files are in a format recognized
by both.
obviously, a DOS executable on a CD-ROM will not work on a Mac and
vice-versa...
i don't know how executor reads the floppy drive directly, but they must
do something, esp under linux, since i can't even mount a Mac floppy.
- -pjf
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