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- From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
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- Subject: Re: NFS mount Sun CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <930111135518.210000ec@TGV.COM>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 13:55:18 PST
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- > In article <1993Jan11.162621.20054@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron) writes:
- >>
- >> Real simple. I'd like to occasionally mount my VAX OLD CDs (wow) on my
- >> cube-mate's Sun. And read them via Bookreader. I suspect that I am persuing
- >> a dream, but maybe someone else has done this. Or at least tried and can save
- >> me the effort.
-
- > I doubt that this is possible today. The problem is that the Vax OLD CDs are
- > in Files-11 format which the Sun probably can't read. I've got a similar
- > problem in that I can't mount the Ultrix OLDs and read them on the Vax.
-
- Not entirely true. See my last mail. When you use RMTALLOC/CD the
- SUN serves the raw blocks to the VAX, and the disk structure is
- interpreted on the VAX.
-
- Ken
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