Sony Laser Library
19-Jan-92 14:13:48
Sb: #17162-Sony Laser Library
Fm: Keith E. Myers 73477,1613
To: Ran Talbott [ISSUES] 75300,2302
Ok, Ran. Yes, I would hope it is possible to accomodate a fix in the
software driver and not in hardware. Still the cost of a new interface
board shouldn't be prohibitive, it's mostly a one chip VLSI board. I read
in another thread of some one's experience using a 6201 over a Novell
network and of reporting no observed degradation (pauses, gaps, flickering
read lights). They guessed it might have something to do with the network
buffering reads from the drive. I'm sort of hoping that disk cache writers
can figure out a way to enable caching of CDROM. I am not sure of why it
is not done now. I don't know the restrictions. My experience with Sony
Tech support last week does not lead me to believe that they would have an
asnwer to the upgrade question. Thanks, Keith.