Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: UNIX optical drives?
Message-ID: <12659@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 Nov 88 16:57:55 GMT
References: <2384@datapg.MN.ORG> <10469@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <10469@eddie.MIT.EDU> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:

| Perhaps it does make sense to ask the question, however, why buy a
| WORM when cheap read/write optical disks are already here and will
| soon be widely available?

  I think it's a very good question. I don't know why the original
poster was looking for WORM, but I have two reasons to want it... first
to keep from shooting myself in the foot by erasing something I want,
and second because WORM has been accepted in *some* courts of law as
valid evidence, while most will reject something on hard/floppy disk as
"primary evidence." Ask the legal group for details, reason one is
enough for me.

  I would be happy with a WORM which looks like a multifile tape. I can
live with spacing, etc, and I don't want or need it for a primary
filesystem, just a way to backup things. Obviously this means that seek
time can be pretty slow and still make me happy.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me