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Article #1241Re: NeXT CDROM on SGI Indigo?
From: Charles M. Fineberg
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:43
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:43
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olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <Bxsnu9.Bo2@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>|
>| scsimodes reports it's a Sony CDU-541 in its cool black disguise.
>| (Sorry, I don't have an Indigo to try one out on...)
>There is a reasonably good chance that it will work with
>the ISO 9660 code then, but no gaurantees.
>It is unlikely to work for software installation.
Why wouldn't it be able to read standard SGI disks as well as 9660
disks? The only problem I have ever had mixing between vendors drives
and systems is in booting. Though I have used many of the combinations
between DEC, Sun and SGI (thats six possibilities right?) I haven't
tried with any NeXT equipment.
Or more specifically, why wouldn't a SCSI command to read a certain
block work the same on the NeXT CD as it does with any other SCSI
device? As long as the returned blocks make sense to the machine,
the data should be "readable". Am I missing something here?
Charlie
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!wuarchive.wustl.edu!fineberg From: fineberg@wupost.wustl.edu (Charles M. Fineberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: NeXT CDROM on SGI Indigo? Date: 16 Nov 1992 10:43:11 -0600 Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <fineberg.721931928@wuarchive.wustl.edu> References: <Bxrv7x.M9E.2@cs.cmu.edu> <sdjtdnk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <Bxsnu9.Bo2@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <se2el5s@zuni.esd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu