Re: Optical Library

["Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

I just recently went over some of this turf. The optical library seems to
not have many useful APIs. Most AS/400  folks seem to go to Magellan, RVI or
one of the other image management vendors.

But consider this: IBM's new LTO tape units are fairly inexpensive and I've
been told they out-perform 3995 optical storage. And they scale up to much
larger capacities. With one of these units you have a standard tape
interface - much easier to deal with.

Patrick
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hall" <jhall@hillmgt.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:36 PM
Subject: Optical Library


> We have a direct attach optical library on our system.  I would like to
> use it to archive some old files/libraries.  We are currently looking at
> ObjectStore for this purpose but it seems way more complicated than we
> need.  We just want to change some of our long term storage to optical.
>
> All we want to do is place files or save files in a directory on an
> optical platter for possible later retrieval.  We may even standardize
> and only place save files out there.  Retrieval speed is not an issue.
>
> Anybody got any suggestions ?
>
> John Hall
> Home Sales Co.
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