CD-ROM
Larry Seamer (larry@athena.unm.edu)
Fri, 22 Jul 94 09:07:41 MDT
As an addendum to Paul Robinson's comments on CD-ROM data archival.
We recently purchased a Pinnacle Micro CD-ROM writer for $3,995.
It records in both single-session and multi-session modes. We have
been playing with it for about 1 month. There are a couple problems,
which I did not appreciate until we started using this technology:
1) In multi-session mode there are 9 megabytes of overhead used
for EACH session.
2) As Paul mentioned, The archival data must first be assembled
on your hard-disk, before being written to the CD-ROM. This
requires a lot of free disk space be maintained on the hard-disk.
However, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The ability to
store large amounts of data securely on inexpensive media and the
ability to retrieve the files on any computer with a CD-ROM drive are
hard to beat.
I would like to know more about Corel-SCSI. It would be nice if the
problems mentioned above could be fixed with software.
CD ROM Vol 2 was produced by staff at the Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
and distributed free of charge as an educational service to the cytometry community.
If you have any comments please direct them to Dr. J. Paul Robinson, Professor & Director, PUCL,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Phone:(317) 494-0757; FAX (317) 494-0517; Web http://www.cyto.purdue.edu
EMAIL robinson@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu
