This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Kyrie, To read multi-session discs requires not only a drive capable of reading sessions beyond the first, but also software that can handle multi-session as well. If the drive or software doesn't have this capability you'll only see the first session on the disc. What drive and software are you…
Sure, T.I.M Phone: (49) 611 270920 FAX: (49) 611 261603 or, if you'd prefer, you can call the MDI office in Bristol, England. Phone: (44) 454 614182 FAX: (44) 454 618206 David
SCSI Express does provide support for name spaces. It also supports HFS discs and ISO 9660 discs with the Rock Ridge extensions. It doesn't support native UNIX discs. David Dillard Micro Design International, Inc.
SCSI Express will allow you to
Beep! That answer is incorrect, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Double speed drives are indeed faster than their single speed counterparts (at least SCSI ones are). You might have to be using a higher end adapter to see a big difference, but its definitely there. David
If you're using MSCDEX there is a call to make to the driver that causes the disc to eject. Don't remember it off of the top of my head. If you're going raw SCSI, the 3401 uses the standard SCSI Start/Stop Unit command to eject the disc. Opcode of 0x1B…
We do have a distributer in Israel: Koor Communication Phone: (972) 3 5483311 FAX: (972) 3 6481267 David
What LAN software are you using? If NetWare 3.x+ we provide hardware and software which allow you to use SCSI CD-ROM drives to access CDs as NetWare volumes. If you're interested email me your address and I'll have some literature sent to you, or if you prefer you can call…
NETSCRIBE 1000
Message #848
In the LAN Times review of the NETSCRIBE it stated that there was a maximum file size of 26MB. Is this true? (I've seen enough mistakes in reviews of our own products to take them with a shaker of salt). If so why? David
1. Yes, you can use the same device for both DOS and UNIX discs. 2. There are packages available that allow sharing of a CD-ROM on a NetWare LAN. If you are planning on mounting UNIX discs on your NetWare server, you'll want to make sure that the software you…
I'm not sure what the difference is between the 3401 and the 3401B, but the 'B's made before April I do know something about. Toshiba had a firmware problem where with multiple devices on the bus, if a drive tried to reconnect when another device already had the bus the…
The next release will support Photo-CD. We have it working inhouse; I don't have a release date. Jim, if you're around, perhaps you can shed some light on an expected date… David
We have software that will allow you to mount CD-ROMs as NetWare volumes. If you'd like more information email me your address and I'll have some literature sent to you. Or, if you'd prefer, you can call 800-228-0891 and ask to speak with a salesperson (please don't ask for me,…
Don't think that we're standing still… David
You might want to try our SCSI Express for NetWare 386. Allows you to have a CD-ROM as NetWare volume (no need for a separate machine, works in your existing server). If you're interested email me your address and I'll have some literature sent to your or you can call…
Its the nature of standards bodies to change things. Adding things like offset to GMT and escape sequences/character sets is a must to get an international standard. Also, everybody wants to get in their two cents worth. We've been going through this with ECMA 167/ISO DIS 13346 (a file system…
To boot from either CD-ROM or WORM would take major reworking of the BIOS code of an adapter. "FORMAT C: /S" won't make a WORM bootable. When writing to a WORM cartridge the device driver is told to write data to sectors which have been previously written. The device driver…
"what causes a disc to fail?" One time we ran across a NASA disc that had some files that couldn't be read. We did some low-level investigation and found that the directory entries for the files we couldn't read were off the end of the disc. We called the publisher…
Can't help you in what to expect performance wise, I was just trying to track down a problem involving their software. Yes, we do sell optical drives, jukeboxes along with our SCSI Express software. Did a quick check and there are several City of Seattle entries in our contact database.…
What timing… I do know that some large corporations do use the BRS software under Windows (its called Pinpoint). American Airlines is one. We provide a package for NetWare 386 that allows CD-ROMs to be accessed as NetWare volumes and are trying to work out a problem using Pinpoint with…
How then can you specify a parent directory number (as used in the path table, which is a two byte value) for directory 100,000?
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ISO filenames?
Message #48719
No limit of a number of files in a directory and a limit of 65,535 directories including the root directory on the entire disk. David
Drive Letter on OS/2
Message #48718
There is no way to assign a specific drive letter to CD-ROM drive. In OS/2 drive letters are assigned as the drivers are encountered in the CONFIG.SYS. Well sort of, .DMDs are assigned first, then .SYSs. You can adjust to agree what drive letters are assigned by moving statements around…