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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: mounting cdroms (have you succeeded?)
Message-ID: <1992Sep21.210131.6274@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <1992Sep20.234300.29240@tfs.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 21:01:31 GMT
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In article <1992Sep20.234300.29240@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
>A general question:
> Have you ever managed to successfully mount a cd-rom?
>
>a more specific question.
> What kind was it, and what was it?
>
>I cannot mount the sun answer book CDROM
>
>does anybody know if this can be done?
>suposedly it is iso9660 but I cannot mount it.
>
>I have never heard of anyone successfuly using the iso filesystem
>has anyone done this?
>
>I have the driver for the cdrom working on the new scsi system
>but can't mount the drive. I went back to the old scsi (as) system
>and That won't allow me to mount either..
>has anybody managed to mount a SUN cdrom? It's all I have here to test with.
You will have to byte-swap values within the file system -- the 80x86 are
byteswapped from the SPARC and 680x0.
Most of the Sun CD's are HSFS, but some are BSD 4.2 with Sun's modifications.
I think it would take a bit of efforts to mount any Sun disks under 386BSD,
unless the were from a 386i, and then you'd take a performance hit over
one using the 386 native byte order.
You may want to try a DECUS or DEC optical; they are the same byte order
as the 386.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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