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- From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket)
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM causes system panic
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.165506.13710@venice.sedd.trw.com>
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- References: <1992Dec14.130658.4752@cyantic.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:55:06 GMT
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- Mark T. Dornfeld (mark@cyantic.com) wrote:
- : I have tried reading several CD's for Sun with no success. The Workspace
- : just spits them back out with no information as to why.
-
- Most Sun CDs are encoded in their own ufs format which the NeXT doesn't
- understand. (Neither does the Mac)
-
- It's good for Sun users because they have to _explicitly_ tell their
- mount command which format disk was inserted and ufs is the default.
- It's only bad for EVERYONE ELSE(!) or those who have other brands
- in addition to their Suns (blastphamy!).
-
- The funny thing is that the first CD put out by Sun, the original CDROM
- demo disk was a nice standard format that the Sun, NeXT and Mac could
- all read.
-
- Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
-