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  2. From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Vice versa: NeXT CD-ROM on Sun
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep11.070520.11933@gagetalker.com>
  6. Date: 11 Sep 92 07:05:20 GMT
  7. References: <cefX_Gq00VpNEw_1Yi@andrew.cmu.edu>
  8. Sender: scotty@gagetalker.com
  9. Organization: L5 Computing
  10. Lines: 11
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  12. In article <cefX_Gq00VpNEw_1Yi@andrew.cmu.edu>  writes:
  13. |> Sun boxes seem to have problems with devices that can't accept 512 byte
  14. |> sectoring.  The NeXT is much more intelligent about such things.
  15. Try mounting a 1K sectored DOS formatted Syquest cartridge under 3.0.
  16.  
  17. It no workee. 512 byte sectored Syquests work much better...
  18.  
  19. And 3.0 is the first release of NS that can mount 2K sectored Unix
  20. filesystems on a CD-ROM drive.
  21.  
  22. Scotty
  23.