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Received: from zifi.genetics.utah.edu (zifi.genetics.utah.edu [155.100.229.31]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA26020 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 15:38:12 -0700 Received: (from zinc@localhost) by zifi.genetics.utah.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA16616; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:38:46 -0600 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:38:45 -0600 (MDT) From: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> To: Stephen Su <ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu> cc: Executor Mailing List <executor@nacm.com> Subject: Re: Magneto optical drives and other issues In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9510191212.C27002-0100000@garnet.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951019163228.16542B-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Stephen Su wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:45:04 -0700 (PDT) > From: Stephen Su <ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu> > To: Executor Mailing List <executor@nacm.com> > Subject: Re: Magneto optical drives and other issues > > On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, zinc wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Stephen Su wrote: > > > > It seems like there should still be a way around it. CDROM drivers for > DOS/Win machines (proprietary, ATAPI, and SCSI) all work with Mac > formatted CDROMs, even though the DOS drivers weren't written with the Mac > format in mind. The same thing's true about BIOSes and ASPI drivers with > regards to SCSI hard drives. I don't know anything about how Executor > manages to read Mac media on PC hardware, so I'll defer to ARDI to say > whether this is an Executor limitation or driver limitation. (BTW, I'm > using ADVASPI.SYS from Advansys and UNI_ASP.SYS from Corel SCSI 2.0 as > the drivers in DOS/Win 3.1.) i guess i was not totally clear. the driver for the DOS machine can't read the Mac _file system_ and, the Mac init cannot read the DOS file system. the CD-ROM file system, however is a standard, something like ISO-9600 or something like that. thus, mac's and DOS machines can (sort of) interoperate with these, as long as the files are in a format recognized by both. obviously, a DOS executable on a CD-ROM will not work on a Mac and vice-versa... i don't know how executor reads the floppy drive directly, but they must do something, esp under linux, since i can't even mount a Mac floppy. - -pjf patrick finerty = zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu = pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu U of Utah biochem grad student in the Bass lab - zinc fingers + dsRNA! ** FINGER zinc-pgp@zifi.genetics.utah.edu for pgp public key - CRYPTO! zifi runs LINUX 1.2.11 -=-=-=WEB=-=-=-> http://zifi.genetics.utah.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMIbTVU3Qo/lG0AH5AQGRKAP9HyXf3KrCCyRGwOo5gEvycMM7ikfwolkw vL43/eKYgU9zUmzciwiNdm1A6sSN9N6SrSDffuAcklOD83xM3tM6psx8wm40w1KU LhHNVGAP8dI0FBXPU0JKlw5E+BuPqUPTcfohJJRKs0hH9acSQhk1epaX7503Zvjk DptJquT0KmY= =ueke -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----