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Steve wrote:
>Another cheaper option would be to put a 1 or 2 Gig drive in the compaq
>and back it up tape occasionally, or scrap the tape and store lmode on an
>optical drive. I've heard mixed opinions on the opticals, and magnetic
>is faster and seems to be keeping up in terms of storage densities. One of
>the things that's frosted my a%# is that 230Mb bernoulli's now cost less
>than the 90's I've been buying!
>I'd really like to here from the rest of you:
I am planning a slightly different setup so those of you with network
and other experience please feel free to offer critical comments:
We are constructing a "5th wheel" trailer to house a mobile environmental
monitoring system. In it will house a Coulter Elite FC along with about half
dozen custom sensors.
To handle data gathering, I have been thinking about a simple network; the
choices range from WFW 3.11 to some form of tcpip/nfs system. Much have been
learned from these network discussions, like the Coulter software ver. 4.0 not
working with wfw etc.
For storage systems, I have narrowed the options down to 2: (a) cdrom
recordable drive and (b) 1.2 gig Pinacle Micro magneto-opto drive system. The
advantage for (a) is obvious, the data is permanently stored on a cdrom that
any modern PC so equipped can use. Choice (b) is the backup plan, in case plan
(a) does not work out due to technical reasons.
We also planned to use some form of realtime data analysis/display software to
show qualitative information from all the sensors on one screen. This is going
to be the toughest part of the system integration task and I can use lots of
help here. Initial ideas include using LabView from National Instruments as
the display software, pulling raw (lmode) data from the Coulter PC drive all
running on a 90/100 MHz Pentium PC.
I am open to all suggestions. When it's all said and done by Sept. 1995,
a report of the details of this system will be published so all contributors
of good ideas will be properly acknowledged.
Jim.
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