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From: simsong@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac CD-ROM mount
Summary: answer
Message-ID: <4249@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 3 Dec 90 14:11:04 GMT
References: <1990Dec1.121256.14451@cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <1990Dec1.121256.14451@cs.cmu.edu>, Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer) writes:
> 
> Has anyone successfully mounted a Mac CD-ROM on a 2.0 system?  The scsi 
> autoconfiguration code believes I have a Sony CDU-8001, but I can't get 
> media to mount. 
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You can use the Mac CDROM drive with no problems.  

Using Mac CDROMs may cause problems, however, since the majority of Macintosh
CDROMs are formatted with the Macintosh HFS file system and not with the
High Sierra or the ISO 9660 file systems.

This incompatability problem typifies Apple's thinking: why bother following
a standard?  After all, if you follow a standard, people aren't "stuck" with
the Apple solution.  Just look at the Macintosh RS232, SCSI, Mouse, ...  None
of them follow any standards; as a result, things developed for the Macintosh
cannot be easily moved to Apple's competition.

For CDROM this is especially upsetting, since the point of CDROM was to make
it easy to transport data from operating system to operating system.

The Macintosh CDROM driver will read 9660 disks, and some of the new Macintosh
disks are in this format.

If you want to try to read a CDROM now, get an IBM PC CDROM.  You'll have
no problem with it.

A really good source of cheap CDROMs with interesting information on them
is the Bureau of Electronic Publishing:

	Barry Cinnamon
	President, Bureau of Electronic Publishing
	P. O. Box 43131
	Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
	201-746-3031

I have no affiliation with Barry of the Bureau, but I write about them from
time to time.

				Simson L. Garfinkel
				MIT Media Laboratory