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- From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket)
- Subject: Re: Sun CDROM discs.
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:22:44 GMT
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- S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk wrote:
- :
- : A local Sun user wants to take a look at a CDROM that Sun sent him, but
- : when I put it in the NeXT CD-ROM drive it spins round a few times, then
- : ejects with a console message that the disk is unwriteable...
- :
- : Should the NeXT beable to read a Sun CDrom? Or is that in some sort of a
- : clever Sun specific format?
-
- Unfortunately, most Sun CDs are the same format as a Sun hard disk, 4.2
- BSD. This makes it unreadable on the NeXT. Sun's original CDrom demo
- disk was in a "standard" format and can be read on the NeXT and even a
- Mac.
-
- Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
-