hjp@franklin.ee.umr.edu (Hardy Pottinger) (06/27/91)
We have been using MDI's SCSI Express software for both MS-DOS and OS2
with future domain and adaptec adapters to control Panasonic 5010
worm drives for about a year now and aren't entirely happy with their
disk organization. It seems to be popular to make worm drives 'look
like' magnetic drives even though the most appropriate application for
a worm drive is for archival storage. They are, after all, 'write
once' and not erasable magnetic storage!
Corel seems to use the same basic approach as MDI which results in
considerable overhead although they do have some other advantages,
like a well documented interface to the scsi bus itself. Optisys
takes a different approach and has their own file system but our
initial experience with Optisys found it to be buggy. That was well
over a year ago though so things might be better now.
I was wondering if anyone else out there is using these products, what
your experience has been, and what your opinions are. If there are
other products that I'm not aware of, I'd like to hear about those
too. Of course I'd be glad to summarize to the net if there's
sufficient interest.
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Hardy J. Pottinger (hjp@ee.umr.edu)
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