Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!skopen.dseg.ti.com!usenet From: elliott@dseg.ti.com Subject: CD-ROM Jukebox on the Network Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Sender: usenet@skopen.dseg.ti.com Nntp-Posting-Host: kelliott.dseg.ti.com Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 14:13:46 GMT Lines: 38 Xref: cdrom.com comp.sys.novell:8217 alt.cd-rom:3013 > You may want to look into OPTINET as an alternative. It is not cheap >but is in the same range as the unmodified set up above. Will run on a >dedicated or non-dedicated server. (dedicated recommended). Works well >for us. as to the Pioneer six pack it will not work on net as you will >get conflicts between users looking for a drive. You need on drive / >disk on a network. You can get towers that are stacked cdrom drives if >you want a single "machine" but the changer will not work for multiple >disks on a net. > >Bill > > * QMPro 1.01 89-0950 * INTERNET: william.lowell@nmebbs.org OPTI-NET is my first choice for a dedicated solution but the expense of an additional workstation just to service CD-ROMs is prohibitive. If I choose non-dedicated, I'm leaning toward Discport; however, I understand that Discport forces the net to carry the information twice. This might slow down multimedia applications. If I attach everything to the server, I could use SCSI Express, but it's so damn expensive. It would also give me the option of adding Macs to the network in the future. I'll probably put everything on the server and just use the new Novell CD-ROM NLM if possible, especially if the February beta release really works as well as reviewers imply. This sounds like the cheapest (free) and easiest solution. As for the jukebox, if I can get the Pioneer six-pack changer to work on the network, I'm going to restrict the use to only one ID. That way the changer wouldn't be constantly trying to swap disks out, but I could use any computer on the net to access the changer (one-at-a-time). Think this might work? Keith Elliott