Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au!ccloreta From: ccloreta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: CD-player compatibility Message-ID: <1991Feb5.102133.15293@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au> Date: 5 Feb 91 00:21:33 GMT References: Distribution: comp.sys.dec Lines: 29 > 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. > > Eugene, As far as I am aware - it isn't possible to read s SUN CD on a Digital CD-ROM. For a DEC machine to understand the data - it must be in files-11 format - unfortunately SUN doesn't use this format. We are current facing the same problem as you - CD's from multiple vendors which apparently require different hardware. Perhaps some wonderful 3rd party manufacturer will produce a CD reader which will be compatible with all the CD's currently available. Cheers, Loretta... =============================================================================== Loretta Davis DECNET: uqvax::ccloreta Supervising Program Librarian INTERNET: ccloreta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au Prentice Computer Centre University of Queensland PHONE: +61 7 365 4075 AUSTRALIA FAX: +61 7 365 4477 ===============================================================================