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- On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, zinc wrote:
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- > On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Stephen Su wrote:
- >
- > > 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.
-
- Except Mac CDs aren't ISO-9600 format, but Executor can read them. I've
- tried a Mac CD-ROM that DOS 6.22 and Windows 95 *cannot* read but
- Executor can. The same should hold true for Mac formatted hard drives.
- (i.e. They can't be seen from DOS or Windows 95 but can be seen from
- Executor.)
-
- > obviously, a DOS executable on a CD-ROM will not work on a Mac and
- > vice-versa...
-
- I don't think the vice-versa is true. I've run Mac programs directly off a
- Mac CD-ROM in Executor.
-
- > 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.
-
- Exactly. Executor can read the binary format of Mac media (e.g.
- floppies, CD-ROMs, and hard drives) that otherwise can't be seen from the
- DOS/Win machine. Any clarification from ARDI?
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- Stephen Su ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu
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