osm@ox.com (Owen Scott Medd) (02/22/90)
We have a growing population of DECstation 3100s and a stable population of Sun 3/50s. Unfortunately (for our systems staff), the machines we've traditionally had backup devices on are being replaced by these faster, newer machines which don't have a bus to stick interface cards into. We are aware of the Exabyte solution, but what I'd really like is some erasable optical disks that could be chained onto the scsi bus. Using them (the erasable optical disks) as dumb dump devices would be fine in the short term, but I'd really like to use them as slow (but removable) filesystems. Is anyone aware of products which would serve our purposes? Recommendations for WORM devices also welcomed, but I think we're really looking for an erasable optical disk with an embedded SCSI controller. [ Maybe I'm completely wrong, too, but I'm sure someone will post that out within the next 10 seconds. ] Owen -- USMail: Ocwen Trading, Inc., 101 N. Main, Suite 410, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Phone: +1 313 930-1888 FAX: +1 313 930-6636 UUCP: <backbone>!umich!oxtrap!osm Internet: osm@ox.com