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From: tundra@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: 20GBYTE Optical on Diskless 340 ?
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.234341.5720@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 23:43:41 GMT
Sender: tundra@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Kemp)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Here is the dilemma.  We want to have a discless 340
booting off of a 835 (because it is a cheap way to get
a SCSI port).  And we want to use a 

           * 20 Gbyte r/w Optical JukeBox *

drive attached to the 340 and access it from the 835.  
Can it be done?  And if so, what are the limitations.

Someone has told us that if the 340 is discless you CAN NOT
do block I/O to the Optical drive, but that if the 340 has
it's own disk, you CAN do block I/O to the Optical.  Does
anybody understand the reasoning behind this?  If we just mounted
every platter via NFS could we avoid this?

Suffering the pains of watching the world 
migrate from HP-IB to SCSI...

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