robert@hslrswi.UUCP (01/29/87)
Hello Net,
We are considering purchasing an optical disc for long-term archival of
sources, news articles, data files and so on.
Does anyone have experience of using such a beast ? I am looking for
pointers indicating what is available. Of course issues such as
reliability, usability, life-time of the discs themselves,
cost-effectiveness, etc., are also of great interest to us.
We are running 4.3BSD Unix on a Vax 750. Therefore some sort of
Unibus device is required.
Any information that sheds light on this would be very gratefully
received.
Thanking you in advance,
Cheers,
- Robert.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~zemon@felix.UUCP (02/05/87)
Emulex sells a Unibus controller & optical disk with VMS
software. Maybe you can write the Unix driver???
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-- Art Zemon
FileNet Corporation
Costa Mesa, California
...! {decvax, ihnp4, ucbvax} !trwrb!felix!zemonkuo@skatter.UUCP (02/07/87)
In article <421@hslrswi.UUCP>, robert@hslrswi.UUCP (Robert Ward) writes: > > Hello Net, > > We are considering purchasing an optical disc for long-term archival of > sources, news articles, data files and so on. > > Does anyone have experience of using such a beast ? I am looking for > pointers indicating what is available. Of course issues such as > reliability, usability, life-time of the discs themselves, > cost-effectiveness, etc., are also of great interest to us. > I would like to hear info about this "worm" (write once read many) optical disk devices too. We are seriously considering using them for on-line data storage for physics experiments. ... Peter/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Kuo | Accelerator Laboratory | (a.k.a. The Beam Warehouse) | Bitnet (VMS) : KUO@SASK Univ. of Saskatchewan | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | uucp (Unix): {ihnp4, alberta}!sask!skatter!kuo CANADA S7N 0W0 | Tel. (306) 966-6059 | [Disclaimer: all the standard stuff.]