We have 2 HP Surestore Optical jukeboxes, one is filled with RW platters, the other with WO. The fs kernel doesn't care.
--jim On Tue Apr 19 05:02:17 EDT 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, this could be trivial or not... > > I am wondering if anybody knows if the current (4e) version of the > fileserver kernel can work with a MO jukebox that is using non-WORM > cartridges. That is, an MO jukebox which uses the standard SCSI > random access read/write commands to store and read data. > > If not, how hard would it be to 'fix' the file server kernel so it > does? (And does anybody have some good starting points on where to > start with such a modification). > > All the material currently refers to the use of single drives as > Fake-WORMs, or the use of WORM catridges in such jukeboxes. Whilst > the jukeboxes I do have support WORM and support the appropriate > commandset, I do not possess enough WORM catridges to operate it in > this mode, and would rather run it using the large stack of rewritable > cartridges I have on hand. > > Thanks, > C.
