DEC Alpha and Optical Jukeboxes

From: gary arnold <gary.arnold_at_HRI.BBSRC.AC.UK>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 14:07:59 BST

     I would like to hear from anybody that has experience (good or bad)
     with providing an on-line optical archiving service from a Dec Alpha.
     
     I am particularly interested in the 5.25 Inch HP Surestore Boxes with
     software that provides some caching before writing to the optical
     media.
     
     I know DEC provide OSMS but as far as I know this is only a way of
     managing the optical media and making it available to DEC Unix, the
     user would still be writing directly to the Optical media which is
     slow. I need to provide a solution to many systems so NFS is my
     preferred choice.
     
     Gary Arnold
     Head of Systems
     Horticulture Research International
     
     Gary.Arnold_at_HRI.BBSRC.AC.UK
Received on Fri Oct 27 1995 - 15:49:35 NZDT