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- From: andyf@uk.sun.com (Andrew Fox - Sun UK - Answer centre)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Replay Harrier @ Newcastle
- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:42:58 GMT
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- In article 11973 gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:
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- >How do you cope with filetypes over NFS off a SCSI CD ROM - we have the Replay CDROM,
- >and we found that the CD ROM drive on our Sun wouldn't work on our Acorn SCSI card,
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- I suspect that CDFS gives an error message 'Cannot play audio disks', when
- you try and mount the replay CD using the Sun CD-ROM.
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- The problem with the Sun CD-ROM is the rev. of firmware fitted in it. This
- problem manifests itself not only with the Acorn card, but with the Morley
- and Oak cards as well.
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- Sun use Sony CDU-8012 drives, but they are fitted with two versions of the
- firmware depending on the age. If you do a *devices, you will see that the
- software revision on board the CD-ROM is displayed, along with a host of
- other info.
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- If you have a CD-ROM with rev. 3.1e, then I'm afraid that it just won't work.
- You need to find a drive that has rev. 3.1a in it, this will work in the
- Acorn world quite happily.
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- You may also have a problem if the CDFS is loaded into ram, and not rom.
- I haven't been able to verify when this causes problems, as I have CDFS
- in rom on my Morley card, but others have reported difficulties.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- Andy.
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