Optical disks for the IRIS...

[Mark Bradley]

In article <8910022156.AA16481 at trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil>, zyda at TROUBLE.CS.NPS.NAVY.MIL (michael zyda) writes:
> 
>      I hear that the Introl Company has optical disks that can be plugged
> into a SCSI interface on the IRIS. Does anyone have any experience
> with these drives? Are there other manufacturers that provide
> optical drives for the IRIS? Does SGI have plans for providing
> such a capability (and by when)?
> 
>      Thank you for any responses.
> 
>      Michael Zyda

This was brought up here before.  Let me reiterate the information from that
discussion;

1)Introl has announced such a product.

2)SGI was not involved with the development or testing.

3)There are reports that this product does not work correctly/reliably.

4)SGI does not endorse this product in any way, shape or form.

5)Your SGI salesperson DOES have a list of 3rd party suppliers that
  may be able to help you.  (Products from vendors on this list have
  presumably been blessed in some manner by SGI.)

6)SGI does not sell a WORM, and probably won't unless there is
  sufficient customer demand to warant such product development
  internally.  There are 3rd party suppliers for WORM.

7)SGI does not yet sell or support MO drives (erasable optical).

						markb


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