RE: 3995 optical drive

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

>Only direct attached 3995s show up under QOPT (by volume id).  The older
>LAN attached 3995's require the HFS APIs.

While the HFS APIs could be appropriate, I'm not sure why they'd be "required". 
I haven't worked with 3995s for some eight years, so I've forgotten a lot. Why 
can't the files just be CPY'd to a directory off of /root at worst? Shouldn't 
the file system handle this for you?

Tom Liotta


midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   3. Re: 3995 optical drive (Keith Carpenter)
>
>Only direct attached 3995s show up under QOPT (by volume id).  The older
>LAN attached 3995's require the HFS APIs.
>
>Vernon Hamberg wrote:
>> Doesn't the 3995 show up under /QOPT? Then you're talking normal IFS
>> commands and/or APIs.
>>
>> At 03:54 PM 4/28/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know of a way to copy the data from an IBM 3995 optical
>>> device to a physical file on the AS400, display the data, or download it
>>> to a p/c file? We have reports stored on these devices and are looking
>>> at a way to get the reports off.

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