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From: "Kenny Millar" <yaroze@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Emulators
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 00:20:51 +0100
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Warren is right, is is the RTE (Run Time Environment) which prevents you
reading non-sony discs in the drive.

You could use samba (which is included) and the samba client to share a CD
Rom drive from a pc.

-Kenny


"Chris Wallace" <chrisw666@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:ad62qk$nos6@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> The playstation 2 can handle playing CD's normally, so why will it choke
> when linux tries to access one?
>
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