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From: [e-mail] (Rick Schaeffer)
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Subject: Re: What approach to CD-ROM?
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Date: 23 Dec 92 01:11:05 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Nigel Harwood) writes:
>I'm in a bit of a quandry about how to decide on a CD-ROM approach.
>I have a 486 ESIX UNIX system with a SCSI HDD which I also use for DOS.
>I would like to get a CD-ROM which I can use under Windows 3.1 but
>also under UNIX for PD software etc.
>
>I am told that packages like the Creative Labs CD-ROM package come with
>a CD-ROM drive which will only work if plugged into the sound board SCSI
>port and won't work properly plugged into a standard SCSI card (I have
>an Adaptec).  So this solution will work for DOS but should for UNIX?

Adaptec sells a CD-ROM aspi driver for DOS and windows.  Works just fine.
(At least with my Chinon 431).  As for Unix, I'm not aware that there
is a File System Driver available for CD-ROM.  You can access the actual drive as
a "raw" SCSI device but I doubt that's what you want.  There was a posting
a while back with a set of utilities that can read ISO9660 compatible CDROMs
but what is really neaded is an SVR4 Virtual File System for the ISO9660
standard.
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