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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:33:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.153349.7886@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Aug31.224152.9800@unixland.natick.ma.us> <BtwFuD.5rB@g <1992Sep2.143548.15051@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1992Sep2.143548.15051@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- > In article <BtwFuD.5rB@gator.rn.com>, larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >
- > | Since SCSI support was included in the base SVR4 package as
- > | distributed from USL, it works quite well. Several vendors
- > | have enhanced the SCSI support beyond the USL sources -- but
- > | to date, no one has added support for a CD-ROM filesystem.
- >
- > One of the few real shortcomings of V.4 (and another reason why SCO
- > runs on one of my machines at home). Maybe someone could port the stuff
- > from some mature o/s like linux.
- >
- > Okay, so yes I'm joking about mature, but not about porting the code.
- > --
- > 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.
-
- The obstacle, from my understanding, is that there's no documentation
- whatsoever on HOW to add a new filesystem to this wonderful fancy-shmancy
- virtual filesystem switch stuff. You have to have the source. And it's
- obviously not simple, even with source, or I'm quite certain that Dell
- or Microport or Esix would have done it by now. This has got to be the
- single biggest complaint about SVR4 that we here - no CD-ROM file system.
- They can't be ignoring it.
-
- SVR4.2 (UnixWare/Destiny) reportedly has a CD-ROM file system. I suppose
- they bought back Sun's code, sinse there's one for Solaris 2.0.
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