Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!unisoft!mtxinu!taniwha!paul From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: When SCSI R/W CDs for the Mac? Message-ID: <644@taniwha.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 90 15:42:28 GMT References: Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland Lines: 26 In article krs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]) writes: >So, as I think about archives and backups and the cost-per-megabyte of >storage media and speed of access and reliability of media, the thought >comes to me that a R/W CD drive as a SCSI device would be wonderful. >Unless I'm totally out of it (again! :-) , the NeXT uses such a drive >as its primary storage medium, though perhaps not as an internal SCSI >device, but with some other interface. > >Anybody heard any rumors along these lines? I'd sure leap at it unless >the base unit was fiercely expensive. Sure lots of people are selling such devices, I have one on my desk. They don't read/write actual CDs (neither does the NeXT) they are normally called 'read-write magneto-optical'. As a rule they have slower seek times than 'traditional' hard drives and are 'fiercely expensive'. Media is a double sided cartridge with 256Mb-1Gb per side. I work for SuperMac which sells a RW optical called 'LaserFrame'. Paul Campbell -- Paul Campbell UUCP: ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul AppleLink: CAMPBELL.P What most people don't realize is that those plastic cover slips that your 3 inch floppies come in are actually condoms for protecting your computer from harmfull computer viruses - practice safe computing ..... :-)