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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: cd-rom
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.152126.12261@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:21:26 GMT
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- In article <1h8v9hINN9qc@agate.berkeley.edu>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
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- | >DAK
- |
- | This goes back to the origin of this thread. Is there any SVR4 vendor
- | supporting these inexpensive CD-ROM drivers? If so, what kind of use
- | can one make of the driver under Unix? For instance, can I read any of
- | the CD-ROM titles usually included with the driver (I always assumed
- | they include some DOS only software).
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- The one from DAK used a dumb 8 bit SCSI board not supported by any
- UNIX I've ever seen. One the other hand when I plugged it into my
- AHA1542B controller and booted UNIX, the startup said something like
- "Oh, look! A CD player"
- unfortunately followed by some message about "filesystem type not
- supported." If you didn't know that Dell doesn't support ANY filesystem
- type you'd blame the drive or CD, but I think it's okay. Unfortunately
- I'm not about to install another o/s which supports CD properly to see.
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- Actually, now that I think about it, I have that CD audio for
- Sun/HP/Dec that was on alt.source, maybe that uses the raw device and I
- can do something useful with the drive after all.
-
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