CompuServe Thread

There is a CD-ROM media standard ISO-9660 (file format basically) it this standard that is really helping CD-ROMs take off. Benefits is a CD-ROM has lots of information and relatively cheap for the amount and its very reliable. The only problem is you can not record on them.

Your questions would require some major downloading time to reply to all of them!!! A. There is no OFFICIAL standard for CD-ROMs today and it's one of the major problems in the expansion of this technology. The same holds true for Sound boards. There are two basic de facto standards that I've seen the ISO-9660 (which you've seen mentioned) and the High Sierra formats. Most "multimedia" CD drives accept both of these standards. However, note, there are others! C. There are quite a few options of using CD drives with NW3.11. There are a few options of connecting it directly to the server with a SCSI interface and an NLM (for more information on this check the NETWIRE forums (NOVA, NOVB and NOVC). It can also be installed on a dedicated workstation and shared using Map Assist from Fresh Technology. I have installed this solution a few times and am quite pleased with it. In addition there are quite a few CD drive manufacturers who have created shareable CD servers for NW3.x which include proprietary softare and/or "jukebox" devices (multiple CD drives in one chasis). D. When you say "multi-CDROM" I assume you refer to jukebox drives which can hold many CD disks in many drives at once. These do exist and they are "NetWare Aware"! If you're really interested I'll go rumaging through my brochures to send you some names. What's a "disk changer"? F. What do you consider a "computer related CD"? One which has information about computers on it? A good example would be Microsoft's Programmer's Library which contains tons of PC programming reference material "at your fingertips". – Let me know if you need more info, I'm running out of space… 😉