RE: 3995 optical drive

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   4. Re: 3995 optical drive (Keith Carpenter)
>
>If you remember your 3995 being visible from the IFS then it was a 
>direct attached type (physically cabled to the AS/400).  Just like a 
>CD/DVD, the volumes mount under the QOPT file system.  Copying files can 
>be as easy as WRKLNK options or CPYFRMSTMF/CPYTOSTMF.
>
>LAN attached 3995s cable to an OS/2 PC which is networked to the AS/400 
>via APPC/APPN.  The LAN attached volumes do not show up under the IFS. 
>To read/write data from these units, you need to use the HFS APIs.

Keith:

Okay, but I'm having trouble visualizing the procedure. What path would be 
passed into an HFS API if the path isn't visible through the IFS?

Tom

>Tom Liotta wrote:
>>>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?

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