Epoch like filesystem
Craig Campbell
craig at attcan.UUCP
Fri Oct 19 01:46:32 AEST 1990
In article <N~1%AW*@rpi.edu> rodney at dali.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
>In article <12778 at vpk4.UUCP> craig at vpk4.ATT.COM (Craig Campbell) writes:
>>There are now available Read Write optical drives. These are not WORM
>>drives. Somehow, the plater information is re-programmable. Optical disks
>>now are useful as a primary storage medium. I do not know $$ or details.
>I do... They are about $200 per 5.25" 600 meg platter. A ten disk juke
>box costs about $10,000 and is a scsi device. The problem is lack of
>software -- this 6 gigabyte thing acts like some sort of large dumb scsi
>object without the proper software.
The one we have is not a juke box but rather uses removable optical disks
one at a time. The disk capacity is 300 meg/side (I think).
craig
P.S. Yes, it is SCSI.
c.e.c.
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