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| 2206.1 | Other supported recorders | WAYLAY::GORDON | Resident Lightning Designer | Tue Mar 25 1997 16:14 | 14 |
| Check the latest (V3.4) SPD
The RRW11 is the JVC drive.
Your list is missing:
Philips CDD522 (probably EOL)
Yamaha CDR100 (nice drive - 4X, probably still available)
Sony CDU920S (still available AFAIK)
--Doug
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| 2206.2 | Is RRW11 orderable | LADDIE::TIBBERT | Lee Tibbert, DTN 226-6115 | Fri Apr 11 1997 07:29 | 18 |
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I'm another person trying to buy a CD-R to work
with an existing Infoserver.
Is RRW11 a device like the CD-Roms which slip into
the InfoServer? Is it orderable through DECdirect
or otherwise? Sorry to say, I can't seem to find it.
Failing that, can anybody suggest a firm in the US
which sells the Sony CDU920s?
I can find plenty of CD-R machines in the local
computer stores, but they seem not to be supported by
the infoserver, sigh.
Thanks in advance,
Lee
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| 2206.3 | | SUBSYS::NOBREGA | | Fri Apr 11 1997 12:31 | 23 |
| Unfortunately CD-R implementations from different vendors are not quite
standardized. This makes its difficult to develop support for a wide
variety of devices. In the last year the CD-R popularity has
accelerated and vendors have rolled out a succession of new products.
We have tested new products from both Yamaha and SONY and have found
that their new products do not implement the functionality correctly
for the way that InfoServer uses the CD-R device. The vendors seem to
be focussing all their energy on attaching CD-R devices to PC's using
multi-session and packet write methods. The InfoServer only supports
single session disk at once recording method. We have made formal
requests to both Yamaha and SONY to modify their firmware but they are
not being extremely responsive to our requests.
You are not likely to find the RRW11 anywhere since this is a 1x
recorder. The SONY CDU920S and Yamaha CDR100 are still around and can
be found (with difficulty) at some distributors. It has also been
reported in this notes file that the Yamaha CDR102 also works with
InfoServer if you do some minor hacking.
I am curious to hear from folks which CDR devices thay think we need to
support with InfoServer.
Bob...
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| 2206.4 | Yamaha CDR 400? | IOSG::BURTON | IOSG - SEI CMM level 3 | Thu Apr 24 1997 15:08 | 12 |
| We have been offered a Yamaha CDR400 which is supposedly a 'direct
replacement' for the Yamaha CDR100. Has this been tested and if so
what were the results?
We have also been offered some expensive software to allow it to run on
Unix. Is this likely to be a good solution taking into account the
need to keep pushing data at the CD-R at constant speed?
Thanks,
Martin.
Martin.
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| 2206.5 | Nope... | LEFTY::CWILLIAMS | CD or not CD, that's the question | Thu Apr 24 1997 15:41 | 15 |
| The CDR400 is -not- a direct CDR100 replacement. It has been tested,
and will not work on the InfoServer. It has SCSI problems which Yamaha
has not fixed yet, and may never fix. Potential volumes are low, so
they are not horribly interested in changing the drive.
It will probably work on an NT or WIN95 system, though, with most of
the mastering SW packages. All of the Unix based solutions are rather
expensive, and at least one that we tested flat out did not work.
You are likely to have better luck with a PC based solution, if you can
figure out how to get it to talk to your host. Dedicated systems work
better.
Chris
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