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- From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Read ISO-9660 CD-ROM on Indigo?
- Message-ID: <santeq0@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 18:50:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.120944.5826@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Nov13.120944.5826@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>, philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za writes:
- > I am considering purchasing a generic UNIX CD ROM advertized to be
- > ISO-9660. Is this a format supported byt the SGI CD ROM drive (on
- > an Indigo)? My understanding from reading man cdromd that this is
- > OK but just as well to be sure.
-
- Yes you can read iso9660 CD-ROM's on an Indigo. Note, if it's an Orange
- Book compliant multi-session write-once CD-ROM current Indigo drives can only
- read the first sesssion. A CD-ROM bought from a vendor is unlikely to be
- multi-session.
-
- ----
- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
- msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc
- "and a wonderful method (reorganization) can be for creating the illusion
- of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
- - Petronius Arbiter, ?? AD.
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