Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sgi!markb@denali.sgi.com From: markb@denali.sgi.com (Mark Bradley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Optical Disk add-on Summary: Introl add-ons Message-ID: <40586@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 18 Aug 89 18:42:22 GMT References: <8908181442.AA10702@aero4.larc.nasa.gov> Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 24 In article <8908181442.AA10702@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") writes: > > What about the Introl Sterling 650E, the (Magneto-Optical, this is > the first time I have ever seen anyone name this correctly) Optical Disk? > As well as ther WORM drives? I was given that impression that these are > SGI "approved" devices. Is that incorrect? > -- > Yes, that is incorrect. These may or may not work. Introl may or may not know. Or it might depend on the system. I do not know what our relation- ship with Introl is, either. I do know that no one in SGI's engineering org- anization has worked on this product directly, and certainly not to the level where it is 'blessed'. markb -- Mark Bradley "Faster, faster, until the thrill of IO Subsystems speed overcomes the fear of death." Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Mountain View, CA ---Hunter S. Thompson