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From: dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: CD-ROM support under AIX PS/2 under DOS Merge
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.173500.22025@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 90 17:35:00 GMT
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Reply-To: dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer)
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One of our AIX PS/2 users, who is a heavy user of DOS Merge,
would like to attach a CD-ROM drive to his Model 70 and
access it under DOS Merge (using the Microsoft CD-ROM
extensions and applications which interface to same, etc.,
etc.)  There is no requirement at this time that the CD-ROM
file system be available under AIX PS/2--only DOS.

Nonetheless, I am somewhat wary of just assuming that we
could buy a microchannel card and CD-ROM drive and have
it "just work."

Has anyone anywhere (IBM, Locus, somewhere else) actually
tried such a combination successfully?  What hardware
did you purchase?  Is this possible to do with the IBM
SCSI controller and the IBM CD-ROM drive?

Thanks for any pointers you can give me,


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Steve Dyer
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