olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson) (02/13/90)
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In article <1990Feb12.212555.9677@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson) writes: > [nothing] Ack. Don't know what happened here. This is what *should* have been there: I just got a call from an aero engineering student who is looking for information on optical disk drives, and the NeXT/Canon drive in particular (he is working on designing a probe to Pluto....). He'd like to know things like: I/O throughput sensitivity to vibration expected lifetime weight and the like. If anyone has any info about these, please drop me some email. He said that the people that he talked to at NeXT told him that the OD in the NeXT was designed in a cooperative effort with Canon. I was under the impression that NeXT just used Canon's drive, not helped design it. What really is the case?? thanks, bob -- Bob Olson University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Internet: rolson@uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet|convex|pur-ee}!uiucdcs!olson
kevin@hiatus.enet.dec.com (Kevin D. Baranski-Walker) (02/13/90)
> He'd like to know things like: > I/O throughput > sensitivity to vibration > expected lifetime > weight I suspect that the sensitivity to vibration is quite high, in fact the users reference manual cautions against this. With so many "tricks with mirrors" in the OD I would doubt it's reliability under anything but office conditions (not necessarliy MY office :-) --------------------------------- Kevin D. Baranski-Walker -> kevin@hiatus.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation -> Beech Sundowner N9236S Nashua, New Hampshire -> Christan Eagle N[Under Construction] ---------------------------------
phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (02/14/90)
Also, it may be difficult to find anybody at Pluto to switch the OD's in and out---which to my mind is the only advantage of an OD over a HD. /ivo welch ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu