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- From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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- Subject: Re: CDROM on DELL v2.2 ?????????
- Message-ID: <PCG.93Jan10200213@decb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 20:02:13 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk's message of 8 Jan 93 09: 39:50 GMT
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- On 8 Jan 93 09:39:50 GMT, mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk (Mark Powell) said:
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- mark> I posted similar a few weeks ago and received nothing. So... I'm
- mark> looking/hoping to get a SCSI CDROM drive for use with Dell v2.2.
- mark> I can't remember anyone in these groups ever mentioning using a CD
- mark> with Dell, so I'm a little unsure. Of course, there's no
- mark> documentation on it, but I do see CD drivers and devices on my
- mark> system, but shouldn't there be a hsfs in /etc/fs ???
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- Ahi ahi, Dell supports CDROM, at the device driver level, but not the CD
- filesystem.
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- I have read somebody has been considering contributing one. In the
- meantime you can find in alt.sources two commands that allow listing and
- copying of files off a CDROM, a bit like the mtools for MSDOS format
- floppy.
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- Piercarlo Grandi, Dept of CS, PC/UW@Aberystwyth <pcg@aber.ac.uk>
- E l'italiano cantava, cantava. E le sue disperate invocazioni giunsero
- alle orecchie del suo divino protettore, il dio della barzelletta
-