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From: rusin@mp.cs.niu.edu (David Rusin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: How to view a drive as a device?
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.160516.24618@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 16:05:16 GMT
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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OK, here's my oddball question. We have a Sun CDROM reader attached to
our Sun fileserver. I have set up a PC on our PC-NFS network so that
the contents of the CDs in the reader appear to be on the n: drive on
the PC. Now, I have a PC executable which wishes to read files from
a CD. But it expects to find the CD as a separate device. The software
comes complete with a number of device drivers, one of which is to 
be copied as CDROM.SYS to the CONFIG.SYS on the PC. (The software also
attempts to load mscdex.exe - microsoft extensions - which in turn
require the CDROM.SYS driver.). 
	Is there a software solution to allow me to run the PC
program with the CDROM reader attached to the SUN? Or will I have to buy
a controller card for the PC, and then plug the CD reader into whichever
machine needs to use it at any given time? (Advice sought there too).
	Thanks in advance for any pointers  -- Dave Rusin