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From: bhess@milton.u.washington.edu (Bill Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: magneto-optical drives on Sun 3
Message-ID: <10628@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 01:15:03 GMT
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My project is in  the process  of purchasing magneto-optical
drives for our Sun 3/180 and Sun 3/280 running SunOS 4.0.1.
We are interested in a self contained units with their own power
supply and SCSI controller based on the 560 Mbyte Sony drive.
We also  would like to purchase a device driver and utilities from
the same people that provide the drive package which have the following
features:

	Locks the media in the drive when the media is mounted
	as a filesystem.

	Reads the Sun partition label when the new media is mounted.

	Provides for creating a ISO/ANSI formatted disk.

What sort experince have people have with the various suppliers.
I am particularly interested in how well the drivers and utilities
worked out. The vendors that have responded include AlphaTronix,
Andataco, Artecon, Delta-Microsystems, Pinnacle Micro.

Bill Hess
APL/University of Washington