g_ahrendt@vaxa.uwa.oz (Gunter Ahrendt) (12/03/89)
Has anyone had any experience with the Maxtor Tahiti 1 CD Erasable Disk Drive 1GB, 5.25", SCSI, 35msec Seek, 16.7msec Latency, 4MB/sec Transfer
rbriber@POLY1.NIST.GOV (02/06/91)
Does anyone have any experience with any of the relatively new optical disks available and connecting them to the SCSI port of an Iris. I see in magazines like Mac User that there are a number of reasonably priced units in the 600MB range. We need a removable archive unit for convenience, but high speed is not critical. More convenient than standard tape, that is... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Adios Amebas, | "I've tried and tried and I'm still mystified, | | Rob Briber | I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied" | | NIST 224/B210 | -Elvis | | Gaithersburg, MD 20899| rbriber@poly1.nist.gov (Internet) | | (301) 975-6775 (voice)| rbriber@enh.nist.gov (Internet) | | (301) 975-2128 (fax) | rbriber@nbsenh.bitnet (Bitnet) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) (02/07/91)
In article <9102060140.AA21758@poly1.nist.gov>, rbriber@POLY1.NIST.GOV writes: > Does anyone have any experience with any of the relatively new optical > disks available and connecting them to the SCSI port of an Iris. I see > in magazines like Mac User that there are a number of reasonably priced > units in the 600MB range. We need a removable archive unit for convenience, > but high speed is not critical. More convenient than standard tape, that > is... > The Maxtor Tahiti works well with Irix 3.3 and later. I believe that Storage Dimensions (a subsidiary of Maxtor) is the actual vendor. They put it in a small box with its own power supply and cooling fan.