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From: ash@omega.UUCP (Andrew Hardie)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: CD-ROMs under Interactive
Message-ID: <28286b76@omega.uucp>
Date: 8 May 91 21:19:30 GMT
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Not quite sure why this is in tcp-ip list, but still ...

>      This question is of general interest.  If anyone knows a good answer,
> PLEASE respond to the newsgroup!

I agree - I'm having trouble too!

> We're trying to use a CD-ROM reader under Interactive Unix 2.2 without
> much success.  

I'm having no success at all.

> ISC doesn't know how to mount ISO-9660 CD-ROMS as Unix file-systems 

I'm not even getting this far. My setup is Intel 403E (33MHz 486), 16M RAM,
with two 1.2G SCSI, SCSI WangDAT and SCSI CD-ROM hung off Adaptec 17xx (EISA)
controller, with Interactive. The SCSI-Express software offered by the 
supplier doesn't work and they don't seem to have any real ideas about what 
to do next. I certainly have not tried using the VP/IX (a) because I have
heard "bad things" about VP/IX, (b) because I did not buy a UNIX box to have
it pretend to be a PC, and (c) because I want to mount the CD-ROM as a 
single 600MB partition (or, I accept, three or four, if the 2E16 - 2 inode
maximum rears its ugly head).

> Actually, I believe SCO Unix will also allow High Sierra format
> CD-ROMS to be mounted as file systems.  It has been a long time since
> I tried this, but I think it worked just fine.  Of course, it is
> probably too late since you already bought Interactive, but others
> might benefit from this info.

Annoyingly, I have a SCO box as well, but it's only a COMPAQ and does not
have SCSI at all. A *real* solution for Interactive is preferred.

All net wisdom welcome ...

Andrew
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