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- From: peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
- Subject: SVR4 CD-ROM, VFS, SCSI (was: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware))
- Message-ID: <BtzJst.FH1@zeus.dialix.oz.au>
- Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd. Perth, Australia
- References: <1992Aug17.115713.1131@dlpinc00.rn.com> <Bt4t2s.M1C@gator.rn.com> <1992Aug22.155636.16266@unixland.natick.ma.us> <1992Aug24.220140.4277@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1992Aug26.183923.8006@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug31.224152.9800@unixland.natick.ma.us> <BtwFuD.5rB@g <1992Sep2.143548.15051@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:43:40 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E 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.
-
- There is a freely available ISO-9660 FS for CD-ROM for net-2 derived systems
- that is just crying out to be ported to SVR4 (Whose VFS is based on the
- SunOS/BSD VFS).
-
- *BUT* The VFS interfaces are completely undocumented in SVR4, and nobody
- who does understand them is (so far) prepared to give out information, because
- A) it would violate their source license, OR B) It cost them money to find
- out, so they are certainly not going to freely distribute the stuff.
-
- I really hope somebody will prove me wrong here (How about the vfsops/vnops
- vector docs? hint, hint.. :-).
-
- The biggest problem is that the VFS *is* *different* between SVR4's on
- different architectures. (EG: Motorola VFS code wont work on SVR4/386 VFS).
- --
- Peter Wemm : peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au If it's broke, fix it (The MS-DOS way)
- Work phone: +61-9-479-1855 If it aint broke, don't touch it (The Unix way)
- Fax: +61-9-479-1134 If we can't fix it, it ain't broke (Maintainer's Motto)
- "Don't give me that intelligent life cr*p, find me something to blow up!"
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