Subject: Re: ATAPI CDROM drives
To: Risc BSD mailing list <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: James Hunter <james@KRYTEN.FOOBAR.CO.UK>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/15/1996 00:43:55
On Fri 14 Jun, Mark Brinicombe wrote:
> >Has anyone tried a Goldstar IDE ATAPI CD Rom yet? is there
> >a compatibility list? Is it possible to use RiscBSD to read data
> >off a "RiscOS" CD Rom - eg one of the PD/Shareware ones - and then
> >use Unixfs to transfer it to ADFS? I assume this requires the
> >CD to be in an ISO format and also that the files are in some
> >kind of archive (or else filetypes will be lost during the transfer).
> 
> I have tried 1 4x Goldstart CDROM drive. I'll have to check the model. It
> worked fine with some CDROM's but did not like any Gold CD's.
> RiscBSD handles standard iso 9660 format CDROM's so there are no problems with
> reading "RiscOS" CDROMs.

Does RiscBSD support the rockridge extentions then?

James
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