mikej@lilink.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston) (08/08/89)
I posted this a while back and got zero responses. Perhaps I will have better luck this time around. I am looking for software drivers that will allow me to utilize any of the currently available CD-ROM drives under SCO Xenix. If I could make the CD-ROM a read only file system that would be great. Anyone have any leads to this type of software? I'm surprised it hasn't already been made available. Software developers take note! -- Michael R. Johnston System Administrator rutgers!lilink!mikej LILINK Public Access Xenix (516) 872-2137/2138/2349 1200/2400 Login: new
dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (08/08/89)
In article <763@lilink.UUCP> mikej@lilink.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston) writes: >I am looking for software drivers that will allow me to utilize any of the >currently available CD-ROM drives under SCO Xenix. If I could >make the CD-ROM a read only file system that would be great. Anyone have >any leads to this type of software? I'm surprised it hasn't already been >made available. Software developers take note! My company is busy doing just this for systems which support the NFS VFS interface; namely, a specialized VFS interface to High Sierra/ISO 9660 CD-ROM disks. Right now, it's being developed for workstations, but an obvious next step would be a future version of Xenix/SCO Unix which had NFS/VFS support. Note that providing access to a read-only filesystem rarely gives you everything you need to access the databases on most CD-ROM disks. Committees have finally standardized on a filesystem format (which, by the way, is hardly in universal use), but the format of the files within that standard filesystem and the software retrieval methodology is still mostly proprietary, undocumented and a Tower of Babel. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu
davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody) (08/15/89)
Does the new version of PC_NFS let you mount PC filesystems on UNIX?
If so you have a cheap solution (relatively) by putting the Xenix and
DOS systems on a short ehternet. The TCP package from SCO is supposed to
get NFS at the same time Open Desktop comes out (isn't it?).
bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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