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From: sandy@polari.UUCP (sandy fifer)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Jukeboxes under Unix
Message-ID: <2868@polari.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 06:44:18 GMT
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I'd like to find out how magneto-optical jukeboxes behave when attached
to Unix systems.  That is, how do they fit into the Unix filesystem, and
how do they look to users?

For example, if I want to gain access to a file on a certain cartridge,
do I have to use some command to ``load'' the cartridge, and then mount
it onto a directory?  Or are the cartridges all mounted at the same
time, and the driver loads and unloads them appropriately, as I peruse
the corresponding directories?

Either of these approaches (and probably others) should be possible.
What do vendors actually provide?  I'm primarily interested in jukebox
subsystems, rather than jukeboxes incorporated into turnkey NFS servers.

Thanks for any enlightenment you can provide.

Sandy Fifer              sandy@polari.uucp
                         ...!uw-beaver!sumax!polari!sandy