Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!serc!lager!bogaart From: bogaart@lager.serc.nl (Eugene Bogaart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: CD-player compatibility Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 91 18:25:42 GMT Sender: bogaart@serc.nl Distribution: comp.sys.dec Organization: SERC Lines: 38 Hoi Netlanders, An increasing number of CD-disks are coming across my desk. But the origin sources of these disk differ a lot. Up to now I have at least 3 different Hardware vendors that send me CD-disks now and then. In the process of buying an CD-player I wonder, whether there is any form of compatibility between the CD-players and the data format on disk, because I donot like to buy 3 different (or even more) CD-players for each architecture of computer equipement. Dec has the RRD40 with SCSI interface for serveral machines. Is there any chance that another none DEC SCSI player would work as well. (e.g. Sun Microsystems current CD-player, I believe its number is X559H !) Another question would be: Are the filesystem formats compatible ? (I donot mean the distribution formats because they are always different !) So in general has any body experience with connecting a none DEC CD-player to DEC hardware, or vice versa. Thanks, so far Eugene -- Name: Eugene Bogaart | Software Engineering Research Centre Email: bogaart@serc.nl | Lange Viestraat 365 3511 BK Utrecht Phone: +31 30 32 26 40 | P.box 424 3500 AK Utrecht Fax: +31 30 34 12 49 | The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------- Home phone:+31 838051889 | De Wiek 93, 6712 JC Ede