Optical Drives for Iris'

[Mark Bradley]

In article <9003091545.AA16568 at aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates at AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") writes:
> 
>    You said 1024 bytes/sector is not filesystem compatible----yet!
> How long until it is?  How long until the ZCAV media is available?
> If Sony doesn't support this media, who else is making the MO drives.
> As far as I have seen Sony is the only one making them.  Buying a
> drive from SGI at twice the cost everyone else sells it for doesn't
> sound appeling either.

Variable sector lengths is probably about a year away.  Perhaps a bit more.
ZCAV is available to me in limited quantity today, but don't know about
more commercial availability time frames.
MO mfrs. include Sony, Ricoh, Maxoptics, Hitachi, Kodak, and probably
others that I am not familiar with.  Not too sure about Kodak any more
but they and Verbatim (as I recall) had something going a while ago.
I can't change the price for you.  That's not in my realm.

							markb


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