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From: rock@warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: CD's which work with Sun, Mac and IBM
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Date: 13 Nov 90 23:35:29 GMT
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dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (Stewart Tansley) writes:

>In article <16333@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> agc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric E. Palmer) writes:
>>I want to get a CD ROM, but I need it to be able to be usable
>>by any machine (Well, Mac, Sun and IBM)
>>Are there any on the market?
>>Eric

>Sorry, no answer Eric, but we have just got one of the big Sun 4 servers with
>a 'free' CD ROM drive. Is there a way by which we can read Mac CD ROMs using 
>this beastie - via the Suns, or whatever? We have excellent Sun/Mac inter-
>connectivity, BTW.

>I thought there was some standard format for these beasties, right? (High
>Sierra, or somink.)

>Thanks for any help!

The SunCD drive can read any CD-ROM that was formatted in ISO 9660
(sometimes called High Sierra).  Many Mac discs are not formatted that
way.  Most PCs are.  Note, that while you can read the data you cannot
execute a Mac application from a CD on a Sun, and vice-versa.


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     Bill Petro  {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
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