Large Storage Systems (> 40 Gig.)

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From: David Apfelbaum
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:11

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Has anyone out there heard of any truely large storage systems?  Some
people I know are looking to store something on the order of 40 to 50
Gigabytes of data.  I've heard about Jukebox technology, but no one
seems to make the necessary drivers for the NeXT.

So, do any of you know anything?  It would seem as though a Jukebox
could be mounted as a removable-media SCSI drive, with only minor
modifications to the existing device drivers to change disks on command.
 But NeXT doesn't seem to provide the source to their drivers...  (Or
documentation -- all I've been able to find are the .h files in
/usr/include/nextdev...)


Any ideas?  Am I tree'd?



                -David Apfelbaum.
                 da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu



P.S> The 32-bit (4 Gig) limit in the NeXT filesystem prevents using a
jukebox as one large drive, as we would need to rewrite the filesystem
to get around it...   Of course, if somebody out there has already done
this.......

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From: da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Apfelbaum)
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Subject: Large Storage Systems (> 40 Gig.)
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Date: 20 Aug 92 14:11:13 GMT
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