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From: lim@cwlim.CWRU.EDU (Hock Koon Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Multiple Optical Drives on NOVELL request for info
Keywords: optical storage, database server, NOVELL
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.163617.28398@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 90 16:36:17 GMT
References: <1920@monu1.cc.monash.oz>
Sender: lim@ins.cwru.edu ( Hock-Koon Lim)
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Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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In article <1920@monu1.cc.monash.oz> com217v@monu1.cc.monash.oz (Mr. S Dart) writes:
>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.
>

  Yes, it is possible.   I have a CD-ROM server on the campus Novell network
 that support 7 CD-ROM Drives. Users login to a Novell server and select
the CD-ROM entry from the menu. The Novell server redirect the CD-ROM drives
from the CD-server through IPX and map it as one of your local drive.  
 There are number of vendor out there that
have CD-ROM server products.  The once that I am using here is from CBIS.


  The CBIS's CD Connection software has a version that is based on Novell
IPX.  You can use a 286 or 386 PC tower to be your CD server. The tower 
that I use can mount upto 7 CD-ROM Drives.  The CD connection software can
support upto 21 drives on one CD-server(3 towers) and link with SCSI cable.
The CD-ROM drive that I use is make be Toshiba which uses the ISO 9660 format.
It work pretty well for us here.  Let me know if would like to have more information about our setup.


PS.  I have no relation with CBIS.

 
-- 
Hock-Koon Lim, Information Network services
Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio, USA  44106   
(216) 368-2982        lim@ins.cwru.edu