From: burley@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) Subject: SCSI WORM Support? Date: 7 Jan 1993 03:40:10
Somebody's selling a used WORM drive, an 800MB one, along with some
cartridges. This might be really helpful for my project (GNU Fortran),
even though I have a 1.2GB disk, I have lots of archival data I want
to keep around (just in case someone sues me saying I ripped GNU Fortran
off of them, I can show how it developed over the past several years).
Info I have so far:
Storage Dimensions (Maxtor RXT 800 HS) WORM
External 800 MB SCSI Drive
I already have an Adaptec AHA-1740 with one Maxtor PO-12S drive, so
presumably I could just install this WORM as Target 1 or something.
But, I'm not sure whether that'll really work from a hardware/driver
perspective, and...I'm pretty sure WORM drives need a special file
system especially with regards writing data to them. Or, at least a
driver so I could write successive .tar.Z files to a cartridge or
something.
Any info on this? It's not in the FAQ that I have on my system right now.
BTW, I'm willing to do the coding of a new driver or filesystem to
accommodate WORM if I can be assured of getting the basic technical
info I need.
tq vm, (burley)