Help! Sharing CD-ROMs

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2 total messages Started by nick Mon, 24 Jun 1991 12:52

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Author: nick
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 12:52

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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.



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Re: Help! Sharing CD-ROMs

#1564

Author: Adam Justin Thornton
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:15

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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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