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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4: no SCSI support for Exabyte and/or CDROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.151622.4011@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 15:16:22 GMT
- References: <rvdp.714220940@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl> <1992Aug19.215506.7942@portal.hq.videocart.com> <3731@randvax.rand.org> <BtC0B1.L67@gator.rn.com>
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- In article <BtC0B1.L67@gator.rn.com>, larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- | edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
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- | >Unless Dell has broken something, they should also support a Toshiba
- | >3201A CD-ROM or similar with a 1542 SCSI controller. It's in the
- |
- | Dell sells the Sony CD-Roms -- but like you mentioned, there
- | is currently no support to mount the CD-Rom so it would be up
- | to the user to write utilities or a file system for the device.
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- yes, that's one of two reasons why I use SCO for some applications. On
- the other hand, I can run ODT on one machine with the CD and Dell on
- others using net connections. I believe at one time chinet used CDs on
- DOS machines, and some shareware to NFS export them.
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- Randy, are you reading here?
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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