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In an article sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
>I have ordered the DAP CD, but only have access to CD ROM drives on
>DecStation 5000's.  I've been told that they read the IS09660 format. 
>(I think thats right...)  Is this the format that the CD is on?  How
>many floppies will it fit onto?  Or, how much harddrive space is it
>(uncompressed) 

	Don't trust what brand the CD says it is on the outside! I know that
companies like DEC and HP source the internal parts for peripherals(sp?) like
CD-ROMs from third parties. I borrowed an "HP" CD-ROM from a workstation I
manage here, took it home, booted a DOS floppy with the SCSICNTL.EXE program
on it and the drive IDed itself as a Toshiba XM-3301TA, one of the drives
listed in the FAQ as directly supported by OS/2 2.0!! Talk about lucky! I'm
using it this very minute, with WinOS2 3.1's media player to listen to a CD
as I write!
	On another note I don't think you'll have to worry too much about 
the CD-ROM being able to read the CD disc, better to worry about whether or
not OS/2 will recognize the drive.

Good Luck,
Gary Hennigan
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PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics
New Mexico State University
email: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu