labman@ecr.mu.oz.au (Bruce Robertson) (08/21/90)
Hi all in netland. I am making a general enquiry for information regarding Rewritable Optical Disks. These beasts are just starting to hit the Australian market and what I desire from netland is some feedback from users who have tried (and won) installing these beasts on SUN 3/xxx and SUN 4/xxx beasts. I have seen devices from Sony and Pioneer but the problem is not so much the device but the device drivers and kernel support. I know there are a few installations or WORM machines but rewritable is my immediate concern. WHY?? Ihave over 6GigaByte of online storage and want some means of having fair backup times but fast (very fast) retrieval times. Many thanks, Bruce Robertson. Bruce Robertson | labman@gondwana.ecr.mu.OZ.AU Department of Engineering Computer Resources, | labman@128.250.1.63 C/o Faculty of Engineering, |
mary@snoopy.src.ricoh.co.jp (Mary Inaba) (08/23/90)
In article <5145@munnari.oz.au> labman@ecr.mu.oz.au (Bruce Robertson) writes: > I am making a general enquiry for information regarding Rewritable Optical > Disks. These beasts are just starting to hit the Australian market and what > I desire from netland is some feedback from users who have tried (and won) > installing these beasts on SUN 3/xxx and SUN 4/xxx beasts. Ricoh has developed and marketed a device driver for our (RICOH's) magneto-optical disks (rewritable optical disks) which supports both Sun3 and Sun4 (including SPARC station 1). It perfectly supports removable media. It reads labels after each media change, and disables ejecting media while any open file exists on the media. The only problem is which is marketed in Japan, U.S., and Europe, as far as I know. Please contact our sales persons for the details. I attach their PHYSICAL mail address and FAX numbers. (since we don't have big time lag between Japan and Australia, if you can speak Japanese, telephone call is also welcome :-) RICOH COMAPNY LTD. Shin-yokohama, I C BLDG. 3-18-9 Shinyokohama Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 222 Japan attn. Mr. Kiyotaka Yokoo or Mr.Katsunori Nakata Fax : +81-45-474-3580 Tel : +81-45-474-3581 Mary Inaba Software Div. Ricoh Company Ltd.