nick@abblund.se (06/24/91)
Has anyone shared CD-ROMs between different machines, for example Mac and PC, or Mac and Unix? Is it possible? What I have in mind is coupling a CD-ROM player somehow in a network so that it can be shared between different machines. To be more specific, I have thought of connecting the player to a Unix machine and trying to use it from a Mac via NFS, but I don't know if you can mount a Mac CD-ROM onto a Unix system, or whether a Mac will treat an NFS disc as a CD-ROM. I am open to other suggestions. Basically we don't want to have to buy two CD-ROM players. -- Nick Hoggard Phone: + 46 46 168524 Man-Machine Communication Lab Fax: + 46 46 145620 ABB Corporate Research, Dept KLL Email: nick@abblund.se Ideon Research Park, Ole Roemers vaeg 5, S-223 70 Lund, Sweden
adam@flammulated.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) (06/25/91)
If the CD-ROMS are in ISO 9660 (or High Sierra) format, this will work.
This is good for _huge_ databases, I suppose things like gif files, and
text. Probably the best idea if you're networking them is to hang the
CD-ROMS off a SCSI bus on a Unix box. Be forewarned, however, that CD-ROM is
_very_ slow, and I have the uneasy feeling that if more than one person is
trying to access the data on a single CD (or stack, in a jukebox machine),
things will slow to an absolutely unacceptable crawl.
Hope this helps,
Adam
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