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- From: da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Apfelbaum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Large Storage Systems (> 40 Gig.)
- Message-ID: <AeZ1W1W00WA74C4CVP@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 14:11:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.AeZ1W1W00WA74C4CVP
- Organization: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Has anyone out there heard of any truely large storage systems? Some
- people I know are looking to store something on the order of 40 to 50
- Gigabytes of data. I've heard about Jukebox technology, but no one
- seems to make the necessary drivers for the NeXT.
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- So, do any of you know anything? It would seem as though a Jukebox
- could be mounted as a removable-media SCSI drive, with only minor
- modifications to the existing device drivers to change disks on command.
- But NeXT doesn't seem to provide the source to their drivers... (Or
- documentation -- all I've been able to find are the .h files in
- /usr/include/nextdev...)
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- Any ideas? Am I tree'd?
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- -David Apfelbaum.
- da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu
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- P.S> The 32-bit (4 Gig) limit in the NeXT filesystem prevents using a
- jukebox as one large drive, as we would need to rewrite the filesystem
- to get around it... Of course, if somebody out there has already done
- this.......
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