Using an optical drive w/ AUX

[Ron Flax]

In article <84189 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <thamer at skiff.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>
>  Has anyone had any success using an optical drive (ie. MacInstor)
>as additional storage for AUX?  How do you tell AUX to access the
>optical ?  The main system is on a HD80, but we want to use an
>optical for an additional 512MB of user storage.

I have the Sony drive (don't recall the number I at home), and it acts
just like any other reasonable SCSI disk drive.. I have to manually
mount/umount it if I want to eject the disk, but asside from that it
works just fine.  No special drivers.  It is SLOW though, so I tend to
just use it for backups.

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Ron Flax
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