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- From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Does Ultrix 4.2 support RW-optical disks
- Keywords: maxoptics, SCSI, etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.213009.1264@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 21:30:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: coe.1992Jul20.213009.1264
- References: <1992Jul20.183518.12947@banana.fedex.com>
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- In article <1992Jul20.183518.12947@banana.fedex.com> bill@banana.fedex.com (bill daniels) writes:
- >We are contemplating adding some Maxoptics Tahiti II Erasable Optical
- >Disk drives to our DECsystems and/or DECstations.
- >
- >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?
- >
- >Which SCSI, single-ended or differential, is needed when attaching
- >to the DEC SCSI bus?
-
- a) The DEC RW optical works fine on my decstions. I think it's a SONY
- drive.
-
- Speculation:
-
- b) Perhaps you need the SCSI CAM software, which is a part of Ultrix
- 4.2C.
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