Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!questor!hfs!bhead From: bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: CD-ROM Drives (was: Request for Next to supply OS on cd-rom) Keywords: cd-rom Message-ID: <1991Jun20.200216.5173@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 20 Jun 91 20:02:16 GMT References: <1991Jun20.140223.23302@umbc3.umbc.edu> Sender: bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca Reply-To: bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca Organization: Headfirst Software, Vancouver, BC, Canada Lines: 28 In article <1991Jun20.124105.11139@umbc3.umbc.edu> jack@umbc4.umbc.edu (Jack Suess) writes: > >I would like to propose that next release the full OS developement environment > >on CD-ROM. Since CD-ROM drives can be had <$400 and the mastering cost is > >very low for the media a cd-rom should only add a small amount to the cost. > While we are on the topic of CD-ROM drives, I'd like to ask to what level does NeXT support CD-ROM? Sure there's the directory /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs that seems to have some custom mounting tool, but where is this documented? I tried to get a Toshiba CD ROM and a SUN (from an IPC) to work with the NeXT -- no luck. The Toshiba wasn't even recognized at boot time. The SUN seemed to automount, then the system asked if I'd like to initialize the unreadable disk...initialize a CD-ROM disk??? - I think not! So I played around with the CDROM.util program in /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs, but without any luck. If anyone has managed to get any CD-ROM drives working and reading either of the two format standards (9660 or High Sierra), please let me know. -Brad -- -- Bradley Head, Headfirst Software, Vancouver BC, Canada NeXTmail : Non-NeXTmail :