Path: utzoo!attcan!craig
From: craig@attcan.UUCP (Craig Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
Subject: Re: Epoch like filesystem
Message-ID: <12795@vpk1.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 15:46:32 GMT
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Reply-To: craig@vpk1.ATT.COM (Craig Campbell)
Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto
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In article <N~1%AW*@rpi.edu> rodney@dali.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
>In article <12778@vpk4.UUCP> craig@vpk4.ATT.COM (Craig Campbell) writes:

>>There are now available Read Write optical drives.  These are not WORM
>>drives.  Somehow, the plater information is re-programmable.  Optical disks
>>now are useful as a primary storage medium.  I do not know $$ or details.
 
>I do... They are about $200 per 5.25" 600 meg platter.  A ten disk juke
>box costs about $10,000 and is a scsi device.  The problem is lack of
>software -- this 6 gigabyte thing acts like some sort of large dumb scsi
>object without the proper software.

The one we have is not a juke box but rather uses removable optical disks
one at a time.  The disk capacity is 300 meg/side (I think).

craig


P.S.  Yes, it is SCSI.

c.e.c.