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From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Highlights of Vancouver BC NeXT Users Group Meeting, Jan. 30, 1991
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Date: 1 Feb 91 14:17:48 GMT
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In article Re: Highlights of Vancouver BC NeXT Users Group Meeting, Jan. 30, 1991
 bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
of : Northern Illinois University writes:
In article <0iLNw1w164w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) writes:
>On January 30,  1991, the Vancouver BC NeXT User's Group held their monthly 
>meeting at the Granville Island Hotel. 
>
>Following is a summary of highlights of the meeting: 
>
>     [text deleted --SJB]
>
>     - There  was  some discussion about Optical Drives.   Concern was 
>       expressed  by users with optical drives only,  that it appeared 
>       NeXT  was  dropping  optical drive support,   as  NeXTstep  2.0 
>       software  does not support two optical drives,  and Improv  and 

     WHAT?????  Do you mean rel. 2.0 has /dev/{r,}od0a but not 
/dev/{r,}od1a?  If so, then how are people with the same very common
configuration that I have ('030 w/OD and 40MB magnetic) supposed to
back up their systems?
---

rod{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}a  does not refer to the _physical_ optical drives,
but rather the optical disk _volumes_ (the physical disk you remove
from the drive)

look at man od(4) if you have the unix man pages on line.  This concept of
volumes is extended to scsi disk drives and floppy drives in 2.0

How many people run a _two_ optical _drive_ system?  That precludes
putting an internal swap disk, and unless running an external scsi drive
would be slow.

pasc