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In article <47npis$a2g@conch.aa.msen.com>,
   Mike Pelletier <mpelletier@ntt.com> wrote:
>In article <47bilq$1mim@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
>	crayadm <crayadm@engr.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>We are interested in purchasing a Pinnacle Micro APEX 4.6GB Optical drive.
>>Can anyone who is using this drive provide me with feedback such as 
>>performance, compatibility w/ UNIX.  We will have it mounted on an SGI.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jesse
>
>It just came out, it's barely available through the channel yet, so I
>don't think you're going to find a large installed base.  Given Pinnacle
>Micro's reputation in the optical storage arena, however, and the fact
>that the drive is built according to ISO standards and has a SCSI
>interface, I personally would feel quite comfortable buying one.  I've
>talked to them recently about it, and they do have SGI drivers for the
>virtual filesystem mechanism. 
>
>In fact, we're in the process of putting together a quote for an imaging
>system, and have included a Pinnacle Micro Incline 350 jukebox in the
>quote.  It just didn't make economic sense to do anything else, and if 
>their performance numbers are even half as good as they say they are, 
>it'll be icing on the cake. 
>
>One important thing to note, however -- the 4.6GB cartrige is in fact two 
>2.3GB sides, so if you're mounting it just as a plain SCSI disk drive 
>you'll only be able to access 2.3GB at a time.  But hey, that sure beats 
>650 MB at a time on the obsolete optical drives, particularly when the 
>4.6GB media costs $40 per gigabyte or so.

So what are you saying??  Do you have to flip the cartridge to read the
rest of the disc??

- Mike Iimura
  miimura@best.com