Re: Does Ultrix 4.2 support RW-optical disks

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From: Jaye Mathisen
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 21:30

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In article <1992Jul20.183518.12947@banana.fedex.com> bill@banana.fedex.com (bill daniels) writes:
>We are contemplating adding some Maxoptics Tahiti II Erasable Optical
>Disk drives to our DECsystems and/or DECstations.
>
>The Maxoptics literature mentions a Common Command Set (CCS) and 
>the SCSI-2 optical command subset.  Does Ultrix support this sort
>of equipment?  Can ultrix, and especially dump/restore, force
>the media ejection?
>
>Which SCSI, single-ended or differential, is needed when attaching
>to the DEC SCSI bus?

a)  The DEC RW optical works fine on my decstions.  I think it's a SONY 
drive.

Speculation:

b)  Perhaps you need the SCSI CAM software, which is a part of Ultrix
4.2C.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu

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