Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ocsmd!motti
From: motti@ocsmd.ocs.com (Motti Bazar)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Multiple Optical Drives on NOVELL request for info
Keywords: optical storage, database server, NOVELL
Message-ID: <860@ocsmd.ocs.com>
Date: 20 Mar 90 13:49:32 GMT
References: <1920@monu1.cc.monash.oz>
Reply-To: motti@ocsmd.ocs.com (Motti Bazar)
Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <1920@monu1.cc.monash.oz> com217v@monu1.cc.monash.oz (Mr. S Dart) writes:
>This is a request for information on optical storage devices that
>allow multiple users access the data therein.
>
>Is it possible to mount several CDROMs on a single fileserver.
>Our current solution is to dedicate a workstation to each CDROM and
>allow users to access them via something like LANassist(tm),
>NETremote(tm) and CarbonCopy(tm). Which is fine for one DB, awkward
>for two and absolutely %$#$%^@ unmanagable for more.
>
>We would be interested in some system that manages a library of n
>CDs on x drives, where n is greater than x.

Its not a comercial forum but I'll try to answer. We at Online
are developing (and selling) a few versions of solutions for
Optical drives (CD-ROM) networking. For Novell networks, we
have our Opti-Net package that can run on one of the workstations
on the net and serve as an optical server for up to 64 drives. It
supports up to 100 users per server etc....
We are comming around May with a new version that runs as a VAP
(Value Added Process) inside the Novell server .....
I don't want to put commercial/propaganda stuff here so anybody
that is interested, please send me e-mail plus your mailing
address and I can send more info.

Have fun ... Motti

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