roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (09/20/89)
We're looking into setting up a Macintosh-based multi-platter CD
ROM system for an on-line bibliographic search system. The particular data
base we are most interested in (MEDLINE) comes one year per disk and we
want to be able to keep as many as 10 years on line, plus be able to
occasionaly have other databases available as well.
The problem is that Macs, with their SCSI I/O busses, can only
support 7 devices (6 CDs and one conventional hard disk, for example).
Does anybody know any way to get more than 6 CDs on a Mac file server? Are
there multi-platter CD drives which only take up a single SCSI address? Is
there any way to put a second SCSI port on a Mac? Right now, our only
alternative seems to be to get two servers and put half the CDs on each
which hardly seems elegant.
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"The connector is the network"tneale@aeras.UUCP (Tom Neale) (09/22/89)
In article <3995@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: >Are there multi-platter CD drives which only take up a single SCSI >address? Pioneer makes one but I don't know the model number. I've seen it demonstrated. It holds about 6 platters. It's a table top type of unit since swinging the platters around takes it out of the 5.25" form factor. -- Blue skies, | ...sun!aeras!tneale | | in flight: N2103Q | The hurrieder I go Tom Neale | in freefall: D8049 | the behinder I get. | via the ether: WA1YUB |