plouff@kali.enet.dec.com (Wes Plouff) (05/25/91)
When the Hypermedia Concepts CDROM of Fish Disks was first announced, I asked the question: has anybody succeeded in running the Canadian Prototype Replica CDROM-FS filesystem in a hardware configuration running the Supra Wordsync controller? Aside from a couple of "please post any reply" mail messages, nothing came back. Now that the software and Fish CDROM have been out for a while, I'll ask again. Has anyone with a Supra controller got a CDROM drive up and running? If so, detailed information including mountlist and startup-sequence entries would be appreciated. -- Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard, Mass. plouff@kali.enet.dec.com Networking bibliography: _Islands in the Net_, by Bruce Sterling _The Matrix_, by John S. Quarterman
mmm@reaper.Chi.IL.US (Michael Marvin Morrison) (05/26/91)
In article <22901@shlump.lkg.dec.com> plouff@kali.enet.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes: > >When the Hypermedia Concepts CDROM of Fish Disks was first announced, I >asked the question: has anybody succeeded in running the Canadian >Prototype Replica CDROM-FS filesystem in a hardware configuration >running the Supra Wordsync controller? > >Aside from a couple of "please post any reply" mail messages, nothing >came back. Now that the software and Fish CDROM have been out for a >while, I'll ask again. Has anyone with a Supra controller got a CDROM >drive up and running? If so, detailed information including mountlist >and startup-sequence entries would be appreciated. I don't know about the Canadian Prototype, but if the Supra Wordsync supports SCSIDirect commands, then the driver from Xetec should work. I spoke with them a couple months ago to ask whether a Sony CDROM (the one being sold from DAK) and my 2091 would work.. They said that they have a Sony driver that should work with ANY HD controller that supports SCSIDirect. According to the people at DAK that drive they are selling (for the IBM) is a Sony SCSI, so it should work. Gee, doesn't DEC sell a CDROM drive for like $25,000 or so? :-) >-- >Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard, Mass. >plouff@kali.enet.dec.com > >Networking bibliography: _Islands in the Net_, by Bruce Sterling > _The Matrix_, by John S. Quarterman -- Michael M Morrison /| |\ mmm@reaper.chi.il.us <or> | | Cold Steel on Ice | | reaper!mmm@miroc.chi.il.us \| |/