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In article <1993Jan6.184715.14693@odin.corp.sgi.com> mccauley@phaeton.asd.sgi.com (Jay McCauley) writes:
>In article <C0Ez6A.LDE@dweomer.org>, brian@dweomer.org (Brian Taylor)
>writes:
>|> I'm interested in ordering the GNU CD-ROM that was just released, but
>|> due to some articles in comp.sys.mips a while ago, I'm concerned that
>|> my system (a MIPS MAGNUM 4000-PC50 running RISCos 5.0B) couldn't deal
>|> with the format. Specifically, I read somewhere that the CD-ROM that
>|> came with some (all?) MIPs systems is only for distributing their own
>|> media and almost useless for other things.
>Yup, unfortunate, but true.  ISO 9660 was "on the list" as a possible
>future effort.  There is 9660 support in a CD-ROM kit marketed by what
>was our specials group (I lost track of the names at the last reorg;-).
>It's kinda expensive, though.
>|> 
>|> Can anyone confirm or deny this? Also, if anyone has any information
>|> on incorporating an ISO-9660 filesystem into my kernel, that would also
>|> be most appreciated (thus the Xpost to alt.cd-rom)!
>MONDO HARD!  Incorporating file systems is not for the faint of heart!
>You'd need a source license to begin with (yes, I guess it's theoretically
>possible to do it without one, as the vnode interface is pretty standard).
>This is a pretty major undertaking, probably a couple of person months
>to get anything worth using.
>
>The way SGI does it for IRIX is via an external daemon, I believe.  If
>you have access to one of the IRIX systems, you could copy the stuff over.
>

     Note that Linux for 386/486 systems supports CD-ROM ISO 9660 format.
     And the source is available (under the GPL, of course).
-- 
Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.