R/W optical disks on Sparcstations

[Ken Yap]

I would like to hear from people who have had experience with R/W optical
disks of around 0.5 to 1 Gb on Sparcstations. In particular, I am
interested in the following points.

What models are out there? I've heard of ones from Maxtor, Sony and
recently, Canon.  What's the interface like? Just plug it onto the SCSI
bus, make a filesystem and go?  What is the performance like compared to
magnetic media? Seek times?  Rotational latency?  Anything else?  Plese
email, I'll summarize. Thanks in advance.

	Ken
	ken at csis.dit.csiro.au