daves@hpdtczb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) (05/17/91)
I see adds for CD ROMS that attach to Macs and Apples and have drooled. (Ahh -- to have all the worlds knowledge on a few small pieces of plastic! eh so I exaggerate, but 410 FISH discs on one CD disc seems pretty nice) I just read about something called CDROM-FS that will work with many CD ROM drives with SCSI interfaces. Has anyone ever used this thing? (In particular with a 3000) It reads something called ISO 9660 discs. Is this the standard format? What are other formats like? Any feedback would be nice. Thanks much, Dave S.
guineau@star.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau) (05/19/91)
In article <12230003@hpdtczb.HP.COM>, daves@hpdtczb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) writes... > >I see adds for CD ROMS that attach to Macs and Apples and have drooled. > >(Ahh -- to have all the worlds knowledge on a few small pieces of > plastic! eh so I exaggerate, but 410 FISH discs on one CD disc seems >pretty nice) > >I just read about something called CDROM-FS that will work with >many CD ROM drives with SCSI interfaces. Correct. It's available from HyperMedia Concepts in the USA for (I think) $50.00 > >Has anyone ever used this thing? >(In particular with a 3000) I have used it on an A2500/30 with GVP hardcard and Sony CDROM. Works great, well worth the price if you are planning on accessing ISO 9660 CDROM's. There are a couple of features of the ISO 9660 file system which are in the process of being added into CDROM-FS (interleave format and XAR (Extended Attribute Records)) which currently prevents it from working with a handfull of the couple odd thousand titles avaialble in ISO 9660 format (for instance the NASA collectons). The author is hard at work adding in this support. > >It reads something called ISO 9660 discs. Is this the standard format? >What are other formats like? ISO 9660 is an emerging industry standard file system layout (a VFS or Volume File Structure). It is specific to CDROM and is used extensively in PC and MAc environments. Soon to be available on DEC and Amiga as well! There are about a couple thousand titles ranging from PD software to entire encyclopedia and dictionaries, to medical refernece libraries and other reference works, to the complete works of Shakespeare. You can order a catalog from The Bureau of Electronic Publishing 1-800-828-4766 Prices for sets range from $10.00 to $20,000.000 (really!) > >Any feedback would be nice. > >Thanks much, > >Dave S. -- W. John Guineau grep meaning life | more VMS Development Digital Equipment Corporation guineau@star.enet.dec.com