Removable Magnetic Disks for Sparcsations?

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From: nomdenet
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 20:22

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   In our shop of several Sparcstation IPCs and some 1+s & 2s, all served
by a 4/360 on a different floor, we've got some real disk hogs to whom 100MB
are nothing.  Rather than continue expanding our disk farm (currently up to
2.2 GB) and messing with archiving files to tape & retriving them when/if
necessary, a largish removable drive for each of the parties concerned
would be quite nice.
   I know about the various magneto-optical drives, but their seek and read
times are rather slow.  Ideal would be a 300MB or larger removable magnetic
disk with a SCSI interface.  Apparently Artecon makes such a beast, and I've
got information in the mail from them.  Does any other company sell these?
   I'm also concerned about driver software, and would like the drives
to be changeable without rebooting the system.

   As usual, mail to me, and I'll summarize if there's sufficient interest
and/or volume.


Thanks a bunch,

A. R. White
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, California
90292-6695 
(213) 822-1511, x162
(213) 823-6714  facsimile

ARPA:  nomdenet @ ISI.edu

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