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- From: mccauley@phaeton.asd.sgi.com (Jay McCauley)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.mips,alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM ISO 9660 format...can my system deal with it?
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:47:15 GMT
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- In article <C0Ez6A.LDE@dweomer.org>, brian@dweomer.org (Brian Taylor)
- writes:
- |> I'm interested in ordering the GNU CD-ROM that was just released, but
- |> due to some articles in comp.sys.mips a while ago, I'm concerned that
- |> my system (a MIPS MAGNUM 4000-PC50 running RISCos 5.0B) couldn't deal
- |> with the format. Specifically, I read somewhere that the CD-ROM that
- |> came with some (all?) MIPs systems is only for distributing their own
- |> media and almost useless for other things.
- Yup, unfortunate, but true. ISO 9660 was "on the list" as a possible
- future effort. There is 9660 support in a CD-ROM kit marketed by what
- was our specials group (I lost track of the names at the last reorg;-).
- It's kinda expensive, though.
- |>
- |> Can anyone confirm or deny this? Also, if anyone has any information
- |> on incorporating an ISO-9660 filesystem into my kernel, that would also
- |> be most appreciated (thus the Xpost to alt.cd-rom)!
- MONDO HARD! Incorporating file systems is not for the faint of heart!
- You'd need a source license to begin with (yes, I guess it's theoretically
- possible to do it without one, as the vnode interface is pretty standard).
- This is a pretty major undertaking, probably a couple of person months
- to get anything worth using.
-
- The way SGI does it for IRIX is via an external daemon, I believe. If
- you have access to one of the IRIX systems, you could copy the stuff over.
-
- |>
- |> Thank you kindly,
- |>
- |> Brian
- |> --
- |> Brian Taylor UUCP: uunet.ca!dweomer!brian
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- Sorry not to be more postitive,
- Jay McCauley
- RISC/os Raconteur and General Wet Blanket
-