[comp.sys.sgi] will CD-ROMS read ISO-9660 format?

larry@abtlabs (Larry Pajakowski) (02/26/91)

Anybody know if the CD-ROM Sgi is offering will read a standard
format CD-ROM?

TNX

Larry Pajakowski
Abbott Labs
larry@abtlabs.uucp
pajakowskil%randb.abbott.com@relay.cs.net

olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (02/27/91)

In <1991Feb26.141502.3199@abbott.com> larry@abtlabs (Larry Pajakowski) writes:

| Anybody know if the CD-ROM Sgi is offering will read a standard
| format CD-ROM?

Yes, if you mean the physical format.  We will be supplying software that
can read disks with the ISO9660 standard directory layout, etc.  We MAY
supply software that can read High Sierra disks.

As to actually being able to use the info on those disks, that depends on
its format.  Often the format requires a specific program, which quite likely
will not have been ported to the SGI platform.
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.

rogerc@kuhio.wpd.sgi.com (Roger Chickering) (02/27/91)

In article <1991Feb26.141502.3199@abbott.com>, larry@abtlabs (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
|> Anybody know if the CD-ROM Sgi is offering will read a standard
|> format CD-ROM?
|> 
|> TNX
|> 
|> Larry Pajakowski
|> Abbott Labs
|> larry@abtlabs.uucp
|> pajakowskil%randb.abbott.com@relay.cs.net

The ISO 9660 file system will be supported.

-Roger

dave@imax.com (Dave Martindale) (03/09/91)

In article <1991Feb26.205439.2704@odin.corp.sgi.com> rogerc@wpd.sgi.com writes:
>
>The ISO 9660 file system will be supported.

Will it be supported via a utility program that knows how to read the
format (sort of like "tar")?  Or will it be supported as an honest-to-goodness
Unix filesystem type, so you can chdir into it, export the data via NFS, etc?

olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (03/11/91)

In <1991Mar9.142805.6182@imax.com> dave@imax.com (Dave Martindale) writes:

| In article <1991Feb26.205439.2704@odin.corp.sgi.com> rogerc@wpd.sgi.com writes:
| >
| >The ISO 9660 file system will be supported.
| 
| Will it be supported via a utility program that knows how to read the
| format (sort of like "tar")?  Or will it be supported as an honest-to-goodness
| Unix filesystem type, so you can chdir into it, export the data via NFS, etc?

Fully supported as filesystem via mount, and exportable via nfs.
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.