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- From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Does Ultrix 4.2 support RW-optical disks
- Message-ID: <AJC.92Jul22140844@thendara.pa.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:08:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.183518.12947@banana.fedex.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In-Reply-To: bill@banana.fedex.com's message of 20 Jul 92 18:35:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.183518.12947@banana.fedex.com> bill@banana.fedex.com
- (bill daniels) writes:
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- >> We are contemplating adding some Maxoptics Tahiti II Erasable Optical
- >> Disk drives to our DECsystems and/or DECstations.
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- You'll find the Tahiti E/O listed in the TRI/ADD Shippable Products
- catalog.
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- >> The Maxoptics literature mentions a Common Command Set (CCS) and
- >> the SCSI-2 optical command subset. Does Ultrix support this sort
- >> of equipment? Can ultrix, and especially dump/restore, force
- >> the media ejection?
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- We had the Tahiti drives running under Ultrix v4.2 and I believe
- that the removable disk commands worked (basically, if I remember
- correctly, a mount command locks the door and unmount unlocks the
- door).
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- I believe that the CAM implementation is cleaner still, but you'd
- have to ask MaxOptics about their drivers.
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- >> Which SCSI, single-ended or differential, is needed when attaching
- >> to the DEC SCSI bus?
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- The DEC SCSI implementations, to date, are single-ended SCSI-2
- on all of the DECstations/DECsystems and the VAXstations/VAXsystems.
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- >> Thanks,
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- >> bill daniels
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- You're quite welcome. I hope that this helps.
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- Thanx,
- AJ
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