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- 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
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- 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
-
-
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