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In article <1992Sep26.001235.4726@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>  
fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:
=>
=>I've been told by several people that it is possible to use an apple  
=>cd-rom drive to read the 3.0 disk.  I've tried, and get nowhere.  From  
=>within the "disk" utility, I get the following:
=>
=>disk name: SONY CD-ROM CDU-8002
=>WARNING: device sector size (2048)incompatable with DEV_BSIZE 1024
=>disk type: removable_rw_scsi
=>

This will happen if you are trying to read the 3.0 disk on a 2.xx system.  You  
cannot read the disk on an unmodified 2.xx system regardless of the cd-rom  
drive (hardware is irrelevant).  period.  Use the upgradeprep.app on the  
floppy to upgrade your kernel to handle 2K sectors...

=>Well, it isn't a rw device, so it already goofed up.  Do I need a disktab  
=>entry to handle the drive?  And if so, what should it be?
=>

It is as far as 2.xxx is concerned.  It doesn't know anything about the NeXT's  
4.3 bsd fast filesytem like binary 3.0 CD (whew, what a mouthfull!)...

=>Whenever I insert the cd, it says "External disk is unreadable, ignore or  
=>initialize?"
=>
=>I *hate* it when people say "it just works".  For me, it never does. :(
=>

"It just works" if you are reading the disk on a 3.0 system.

=>fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (NeXTmail welcome)

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