optical disks

[Jeremy Higdon]

In article <9102060140.AA21758 at poly1.nist.gov>, rbriber at POLY1.NIST.GOV writes:
> Does anyone have any experience with any of the relatively new optical
> disks available and connecting them to the SCSI port of an Iris.  I see
> in magazines like Mac User that there are a number of reasonably priced
> units in the 600MB range.  We need a removable archive unit for convenience,
> but high speed is not critical.  More convenient than standard tape, that
> is...
> 

The Maxtor Tahiti works well with Irix 3.3 and later.  I
believe that Storage Dimensions (a subsidiary of Maxtor) is
the actual vendor.  They put it in a small box with its own
power supply and cooling fan.