[rescue] Tape Backup

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Tim H. wrote:

>>> Of course, the SGI seems to have another problem in this regard, as
>>> IRIX's CD player application won't play CDs, either, regardless of
>>> the CD-ROM drive I use.  I haven't had time to chase down the
>>> problems.
>
> The CD player in Irix 6.5 is broken, it uses some obscure scsi calls or
> some such that most CD drives do not support.

It requires SGI's proprietary audio-over-SCSI command set.  As far as I
know, only CD readers with SGI firmware support this command set.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
   > Can you SysAdmins tell me what might go on in a typical day?
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