>I am considering a Yamaha cdr400TXPM for data archiving. We have zip and
>dat also. But, I don't trust magnet media for long term (ie years)
>storeage. Does anyone have cd-r experience? What brands do you like and is
>software available for Sun systems? Cheers, Lew
A few months ago, Roger Harmston's column on
Solaris in __SunServer__ {they can be reached at
<http://www.pcinews.com/pci/sun/> and have
a number of other features of general utility to anyone
using any version of UNIX} discussed CD-r. His
major points were as follows:
1. Main software: Cdrecord available from
<ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/>.
This application is advertised as unsophisticated,
and you need to check the list of compatible drives
maintained at this ftp site to make sure your CD-r
is supported. Ancillary information and component
software needed is listed below.
2. Want the file SCHILYfbk.sparc.tar.Z which
is in pkgadd format to simulate a block device
{see <ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/unix/kernel/fbk/>
for this program}.
3. Also want the formatting utility sformat-3.3.tar.gz
to properly format the disk. The article says that
along with the formatting utility, one needs a scsi
driver like the sdg driver from Sun. The URL:
<ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/scg/> is
listed at this point.
4. The next item listed is mkisofs which is listed as
beint at
<ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/Linux/misc/cd/mkisofs-1.11.tar.gz>
5. Note that the cdrecord distribution contains
a general scsi user transport library.
6. E-mail for the author of all this software is
joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
Now, I haven't tried any of this and cannot comment
on how well it works. I would be interested in hearing
how well it works myself.
Sincerely,
-- Bruce D. Ray bray@iupui.edu Operations Director NMR Center IUPUI Physics Dept. 402 N. Blackford St. Indianapolis, IN 46202-3273