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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.periphs
Subject: Multi-platter CD systems
Message-ID: <3995@phri.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 18:06:03 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	We're looking into setting up a Macintosh-based multi-platter CD
ROM system for an on-line bibliographic search system.  The particular data
base we are most interested in (MEDLINE) comes one year per disk and we
want to be able to keep as many as 10 years on line, plus be able to
occasionaly have other databases available as well.

	The problem is that Macs, with their SCSI I/O busses, can only
support 7 devices (6 CDs and one conventional hard disk, for example).
Does anybody know any way to get more than 6 CDs on a Mac file server?  Are
there multi-platter CD drives which only take up a single SCSI address?  Is
there any way to put a second SCSI port on a Mac?  Right now, our only
alternative seems to be to get two servers and put half the CDs on each
which hardly seems elegant.
-- 
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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