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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.va.pubnix.com!not-for-mail From: lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using ZIP drive across UNIX hardware platforms? Date: 3 Jan 1996 16:31:22 -0500 Organization: AlterNet -- Falls Church, Virginia, USA Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4cesja$dcp@arrow.va.pubnix.com> References: <4cb9aq$9d5@gilligan.htc.com> <4ccc4l$alb@arrow.va.pubnix.com> <mkl.820665345@whoopi.rob.cs.tu-bs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: arrow.va.pubnix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36918 comp.sys.sun.hardware:31248 comp.unix.solaris:56276 comp.sys.sun.admin:59980 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1915 Mario Klebsch DG1AM <mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote: >hsfs is used on CDROMs and can be read on all platforms. I don't >know, wether the hsfs filesystems of Solaris or BSDI do support >writing. Have you ever tried to mount a hard disk copy of a CDROM rw? No, I haven't tried, after reading /sys/isofs/cd9660/cd9660_vnops.c: #define cd9660_write ((int (*) __P((struct vop_write_args *)))cd9660_enotsupp) I rather suspect this is true for all 4.4Lite derived OS's. -Kurt -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@va.pubnix.com) UUCP: <ANYWHERE>!uunet!lidl */ /* Don't confuse my opinions with my employer's opinions! */ /* E-Mail info@va.pubnix.com for info on our shell accounts. */