marcel@duteca (Marcel Mol) (11/29/90)
A friend of mine wants to use CD rom in his system. He knows that it works on PC's, but he wants to use it in a Unix environment. Thewrefor he wants to know if there are drivers and/or software that support CD rom on Unix. If so, for which unix systems, and what hardware is needed (he likes to use it on a SCSI controler). -Marcel -- ######################################### # Marcel J.E. Mol ###################################### # Delft University of Technology Pink Elephant Management Services # # The Netherlands Voorburg # # UUCP: marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl Tel: 070-3694231 # # (Tel prive: 070-3932390) # ##############################################################################
paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater) (12/04/90)
In article <1141@duteca.UUCP> marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Marcel J.E. Mol) writes: > wants to know if there are drivers and/or software that support > CD rom on Unix. If so, for which unix systems, and what hardware is needed > (he likes to use it on a SCSI controler). HP support CD-ROM for on-line manuals on their UNIX system. -- Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.gen.nz
scum@virtech.uucp (Steven C. Monroe) (12/04/90)
marcel@duteca (Marcel Mol) writes: >A friend of mine wants to use CD rom in his system. He knows that it works >on PC's, but he wants to use it in a Unix environment. Thewrefor he >wants to know if there are drivers and/or software that support >CD rom on Unix. If so, for which unix systems, and what hardware is needed >(he likes to use it on a SCSI controler). I saw an summary of a press release in the new products section of the December 1990 edition of Unix World on page 164. A company call Micro Design International has designed a way for UNIX users to access DOS-based CD-ROMs with its SCSI Express Software. Says it supports High Sierra Group and ISO-9660 formats. Also supports disk, tape, DAT, WORM (and other optical media), etc. Available for SCO UNIX, Interactive, and AT&T's PC-based UNIX packages. $495 Micro Design International 6985 University Blvd. Winter Park, Florida 32792 (407)-677-8333 Hope this helps you out! -- Steven C. Monroe (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!scum 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170
del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) (12/13/90)
In article <1141@duteca.UUCP> marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Marcel J.E. Mol) writes: >A friend of mine wants to use CD rom in his system. He knows that it works >on PC's, but he wants to use it in a Unix environment. Thewrefor he >wants to know if there are drivers and/or software that support >CD rom on Unix. If so, for which unix systems, and what hardware is needed >(he likes to use it on a SCSI controler). I haven't seen much in the way of discussion on this. I haven't seen anyone mention the Western Digital 7000 FASST (SCSI) controller, which comes with a driver from Columbia Software. Part of the driver package is a CDROM interface which supposedly allows the CDROM to appear as a file system under Unix. I don't own a CDROM drive, so I don't know how well it works. -- del AKA Erik Lindberg uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del Who is John Galt?