Re: CD-ROM causes system panic

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From: Paul Verket
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:55

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Mark T. Dornfeld (mark@cyantic.com) wrote:
: I have tried reading several CD's for Sun with no success.  The Workspace
: just spits them back out with no information as to why.

Most Sun CDs are encoded in their own ufs format which the NeXT doesn't
understand. (Neither does the Mac) 

It's good for Sun users because they have to _explicitly_ tell their
mount command which format disk was inserted and ufs is the default.
It's only bad for EVERYONE ELSE(!) or those who have other brands
in addition to their Suns (blastphamy!).

The funny thing is that the first CD put out by Sun, the original CDROM
demo disk was a nice standard format that the Sun, NeXT and Mac could
all read.

Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)

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