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- From: ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: Which CD-ROM under Unix (SVR4)?
- Keywords: cd-rom sony unix svr4
- Message-ID: <1243@bazooka.amb.org>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 08:53:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.171202.784@lpds.sublink.org> <1992Dec23.145921.11609@crd.ge.com>
- Reply-To: ti@bazooka.UUCP (Ti Kan)
- Followup-To: alt.cd-rom
- Organization: AMB Research Labs, Sunnyvale, CA.
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- In article <1992Dec23.145921.11609@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.171202.784@lpds.sublink.org>, wally@lpds.sublink.org (Walter Pelissero) writes:
- >> [....]
- >
- > First, be sure the V.4 you intend to buy supports CD. The one major
- >feature missing in Dell is that they don't support CD, or rather they
- >support the CD just fine, as long as you use it as a raw device and
- >don't mind writing your own filesystem.
- >
- > I have solved this by having an SCO ODT machine on my net which can
- >export the CD, but that may not be a practical solution for most people.
-
- USL's SVR4.2 Destiny (available from Consensys, or in a slightly different
- flavor as Univel UnixWare) contains full support of SCSI CD-ROM drives.
- The sc01 target device driver in SVR4.2 supports the raw interface to the
- CD media, while the "cdfs" virtual filesystem supports the ISO9660
- format. The sc01 driver also provides ioctl(S) interfaces which allows
- applications to invoke CD audio playback functionality, but the audio
- capability appears to be specific to Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drives.
-
- -Ti
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