Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!nixtdc!rmc From: rmc@nixtdc.uucp (Russell Crook) Newsgroups: comp.unix.large Subject: Re: Looking for Optical Disk Jukebox Keywords: optical jukebox NFS WORM gigabytes Message-ID: <1990Sep13.130954.26944@nixtdc.uucp> Date: 13 Sep 90 13:09:54 GMT References: <4290@trantor.harris-atd.com> Reply-To: rmc@nixtdc.UUCP (Russell Crook) Distribution: na Organization: NCEC/Sietec/Nixdorf/Siemens Lines: 15 Siemens/Nixdorf has an NFS-based optical jukebox system available called FMWORM. It supports both 5.25" (Cygnet) and 12" (Sony) jukeboxes; the larger jukeboxes each support up to 350 GB, and you can have several on a single host, and multiple hosts. Since it is NFS compliant, anything that works to a normal NFS file server will work to FMWORM (if you account for jukebox latency, etc.). Files are NOT staged; incremental writes to an existing file do not cause a rewrite of the whole file. If you are interested, I have more details available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russell Crook, Nixdorf Toronto Development Centre 2235 Sheppard Ave. E., Willowdale, Ontario, Canada M2J 5B5 Ph: +1 416 496 8510 UUCP: uunet!utai!imax!nixtdc!rmc or rmc@nixtdc.UUCP "... technology so advanced, even we don't know what it does."