nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) (12/20/90)
I will shortly have a Cherokee M610 WORM drive with Adaptec SCSI host adapter & DOS driver software, which I need in order to read data which will be sent to me on DOS format WORM disks. I will be able to do this locally on a Vectra QS/20 running DOS 4.0 & can, if necessary, transfer whole files to our HP 9000 cluster using NCSA Telnet 2.2. What I *can't* do is access the WORM drive directly from the HP cluster to ,e.g., find *part* of a file (I can ftp the whole file, but some are 18 Mb or so ) and read it for analysis on the HP. I also can't connect the WORM drive directly to the HP & still read the DOS format. In fact until HP support SCSI on the 835 I can't connect it, period. Is there any way round this (I can always use the Vectra for most of the work, I'd just prefer to use the 9000 for obvious reasons) ? In particular, could I run Unix (SCO ? Interactive ? ...) on the PC, and NFS mount the PC to our HP, while still being able to see the DOS WORM drive (on the PC) as as a DOS file system. Would this solve the problem & would it work on a 40 Mb, 2Mb RAM Vectra (no money for hardware upgrades) ... :-( If not, how much more RAM & disk do I need ? [ SCO In UK seem to differ on whether it's possible, has anybody actually done it ? ] Any other solutions : Running OS/2 on Vectra ? Some kind of portability software ? (Quickstart has been mentioned, what is it ?) Can the HP CD-ROM 9000 driver be adapted to handle a WORM drive ? All ideas welcome, esp. from HP, SCO, Cherokee or anyone who has actually done something like this ? Nick --