Thanks for all the good feedback:
Randy Hayman <haymanr_at_icefog.sois.alaska.edu>
Dave Golden <golden_at_falcon.invincible.com>
Paul Henderson <pgh_at_unx.dec.com>
Dave Chapman david.w.chapman_at_ussev.mail.abb.com
Briefly:
Vendor Info Responses
Young Minds www.ymi.com 2
GEAR/Electroson ? 2
We are talking with the Young Minds folks at this point, they also support
Windows NT, which is of interest as well.
Cheers - Jeff Stelzner
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>> From: "Randy M. Hayman" <haymanr_at_icefog.sois.alaska.edu>
If you'ld like a third option, get a Young Minds CD-Studio (we've had one
since 5/95). It allows you to do both of your other options, it has a Motif
interface and command-line interface. I've cut disks for Macintosh, Windows,
other Unices, and a long time ago, I created an emergency bootable disk for
Digital UNIX (v3.0B era)...
>> From: Dave Golden <golden_at_falcon.invincible.com>
This is what we use (a Yamaha CDR 100) with the GEAR software.
The GEAR stuff comes with a special driver. It works, just make sure that you
have plenty of local disk storage for the master data (I accidentally burned
one ROM using data via NFS and created a coaster). If you have a spare disk
you can use it to burn UFS disks which can be made bootable.
The Yamaha is a 4x drive but it still takes a while to write and verify a full
disk image. I'd carefully consider that if you plan on making a medium to
large number of disks. We do some low volume customer kit distribution with
ours but the folks that burn the disks get pretty bored doing it. Then there
is the labelling issue... Overall it works as advertised.
>> From: Paul Henderson <pgh_at_unx.dec.com>
We use a Young Minds CD burner here with success.
>> From: david.w.chapman_at_ussev.mail.abb.com
I have a Pinnacle RCD-1000 CD-R drive. I'm also using a software package
called "GEAR" from Elektroson. I have had not been able to write a CD with
this combination! Pinnacle and Elektroson do not have any answers. (If you
can get in touch with them!)
Most people tell me to try a Sony or Yamaha drive.
[original post follows]
> What are people using to write CDs from Digital Unix? There seem to be two
> approaches:
>
> 1. Network CD server [NFS]
>
> 2. Local SCSI-attached units
>
> I'd like to know pros/cons and experiences. Are any special drivers required?
> We are looking to create software distribution kits for customers. I imagine
> the local device approach would allow for making bootable CDs, which might be
> useful in some circumstances.
Received on Thu Feb 06 1997 - 20:04:54 NZDT