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- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cdromlan
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:28:09 -0400
- Reply-To: georger@kean.ucs.mun.ca
- Sender: "CDROMLAN@IDBSU - Use of CDROM Products in Lan Environments"
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- From: georger@KEAN.UCS.MUN.CA
- Subject: OS/2 CD-ROM & SCSCI Express Again
- X-To: cdromlan@idbsu.BITNET, arnold@microdes.mhs.compuserve.com
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- >> I have been looking at options for mounting CD-ROMs on an OS/2 LAN
- >>MANAGER file server. I have > received the info for SCSCI EXPRESS for OS/2
- >>which is interesting but doesn't answer my question >about differences in
- >>performance between it (SCSCI Express) and OS/2's built in CDROM support
- >>IFS.
-
- >> Are there any performance advantages to SCSCI Express in an OS/2
- >>environment or is it basically > similar to what can be achieved using OS/2
- >>1.3+ CDROM IFS (installable file system)?
-
- >The OS/2 CD-ROM IFS requires a CD-ROM device driver, in the same manner as
- >MSCDEX requires a CD-ROM device driver. SCSI Express provides a CD-ROM
- >device driver for OS/2. You still must use the CDROM IFS with SCSI
- >Express.
-
- >- Arnold Jones
- >Micro Design International, Inc.
- >arnold@microdes.mhs.compuserve.com
-
- I would still like some further clarification of the role of SCSI Express in
- the OS/2 environment. Arnold seems to indicate in his last paragraph that
- SCSCI Express provides a device driver for interaction with the OS/2 CD-ROM IFS.
- Yet certainly I can achieve the same objective by using drivers for a SCSCI
- interface card (let's use the example of an ADAPTEC 1542).
-
- If there are any particular performance advantages to using SCSCI Express over
- a generic SCSCI interface card with the CD-ROMs I would like to hear about them.
-
- Thanks
-
- George Beckett
- Health Sciences Library
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- GEORGER@KEAN.UCS.MUN.CA
-