sdm7g@Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski) (01/16/91)
Can either (SUN) pcfs or mtools be used on a non-floppy medium: specifically I want to be able to interchange erasable mag-optical disks between PC's and SUN's. Has anyone done this ? Also: I know of at least one vendor (Alphatronics) that sells software to read/write/translate optical disks between systems. (It doesn't work symmetrically: I think if you want to write data on Sun & read on PC, you have to format/partition disk on PC, move to Sun and write data with translation software, and then read it on PC - native mode. - I may not have the direction correct, but the spirit is more or less the same.) Does anyone know of any similar products, or perhaps one in which ALL systems write data in a common/neutral/foreign(to-all) file system. Any other comments on media/file exchange are invited. ( sdm7g@virginia.edu ) I will summarize & post any e-mail replies.
seamans@seaimage.nlm.nih.gov (James R. Seamans) (01/22/91)
In article <1271@brchh104.bnr.ca> sdm7g@Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski) writes: >Can either (SUN) pcfs or mtools be used on a non-floppy medium: >specifically I want to be able to interchange erasable mag-optical disks >between PC's and SUN's. Has anyone done this ? We are currently investigating a company : Maximum Storage, Inc 5025 Centennial Blvd. Colorado Springs, CO 80919 (719) 531-6888 They have just completed development of a transparent or interchangeable WORM disk between PC's and Sun systems. I only have the features for the PC model but should be the same for the Sun side. Features: PC compatiable plug-and-play subsystem 1003 mbyte formatted capacity 28 msec effective access time (what ever that means) DOS transparent operating software Data porability across a wide range of computing environments Transfer rate is 5.0 MBits/sec Government price is $3575 model APX-5000 In discussion with them, they state that the disk can be written on ether system and read on the other. The Sun system is SCSI and comes with device driver, with NFS capability. Government price is $6925 model APX-5320 Double sided disks are $175. Our application is for medical image capture on a PC based system and then transferring them to a Sun for processing. Our current image sizes are for 1K to 8K square full color for a total of 225 Mbytes. So we need alot of space and this could fit the requirements. James Seamans National Library of Medicine seamans@seaimage.nlm.nih.gov