CompuServe Messages

Mike: Thank you for all your info to this subject. All this discussion gave me a lot of new ideas to solve the problem. To read CD-ROM from both processors (I am of course talking about an Amiga 2000 and a A2386SX bridgeboard PC) my conclusion is: I do _not_ need the "multi SCSI" connection: I can read any files from the CD just using (from the PC) the aread command. (Example: If the CD-ROM on the Amiga has the (software) device name of "CD0:" then I just can read the files of a directory on the CD to the PC directory "C:\temp" by writing:) aread CD0:dir/#? c:\temp /B This works beautifully. This is how I can read on the PC an Amiga-CD or a Windows-CD or a DOS-CD – it does not make any difference! The SCSI connection would give two more opportunities: To "dir" directories (list files) and to execute programs directly from the CD without transferring them first to the PC drives. Since quite a number of those files on the CD is compressed I would have to do that anyway – so I don't loose too much. The directory listings for the CDs I keep on my SyQuest (on the Amiga-SCSI) as text files, and read them from there, again using "aread". Manfred <- flying from FRA via Autopilot (Amiga) 1.052