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From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
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Subject: Re: HPUX 7.0: Was Re: HP Optical When???
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Date: 28 Dec 89 15:36:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: daveg@hpfcdc.HP.COM's message of 27 Dec 89 19:12:59 GMT


In article <5570355@hpfcdc.HP.COM> daveg@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Dave Gutierrez) writes:
> 
>                                    The drive works great and the
> media is cheap considering each side can hold 300+ Mb of data.
> 

actually i have a few questions about the optical discs that i havent
been able to get a straight answer from my sales rep.

1)  do you have to physically remove the disc and flip it over to get,
or does it just act like two different discs?

2)  how do you know which side is which?  

3)  is it possible to read cd-rom discs with the erasable optical
disc?

4)  if than answer to 3 is no, can you obtain the documentation
products on the optical discs?

5)  i have been considering getting one of these for backup purposes.
are they better than the dat tapes and/or the 8mm exabyte tapes for
this purpose?


thanks much for any info...

-wayne