Re: [9fans] mass storage jukebox

[Andrew <afrayedknot@thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

well the HP jukebox happens to be a 20XT, upon a closer inspection has
a total of 16 slots inside for disks. The other sony jukebox has 20,
id prefer the sony of course, do you have any pointers on what to look
for purchasing disks, or on how to determine if either of these are
compatible?

thanks.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:36:06PM -0700, Geoff Collyer wrote:
> I think optical media still make sense, especially at ebay prices.  I
> like having automatic backup that isn't subject to head crashes.  I
> recently bought an HP 80EX there for $500 and am about to switch my
> main file system to it, probably tonight.  I'll also be adding a pair
> of 80GB IDE disks to act as a mirrored cached, since I only have one
> optical drive and don't want to thrash the jukebox to death.  More
> recently I bought an HP 40FX for $150 on ebay, but it hasn't arrived
> yet (I was hoping to get an HP 1200EX with 10 drives, comparable to
> emelie, but bigger, but the bidding got out of hand).
>
> The main requirement is that you have exactly the model of crummy,
> ancient, lousy, oxide-flaking, 30-kilobit-per-second Sony jukebox that
> 1127 has or had for bootes and fornax (the one driven by
> /sys/src/fs/dev/sony.c) or that you have pretty much any old SCSI-2
> MMC jukebox, such as the HPs.  I just plugged in the 80EX, configured
> it and it worked (I did enable conf.dumpreread out of paranoia, but so
> far it's reported no errors):
>
> 	filsys main c[w2w3]j(w4w5)(l<0-15>l<16-31>)
> 	filsys dump o
> 	filsys other w0
>
> : cpu; lc /n/fsb
> Directories:
> 29000          386            68000          68020          960
> acme           adm            alpha          arm            cron
> dist           i              lib            mail           mips
> mnt            n              net.gig        power          rc
> rls            sparc          sys            tmp            usr
>
> Files:
> LICENSE        NOTICE
> : cpu; lc /n/fsbdump/2002
> Directories:
> 0917           0918           0919           0920           0921
> 0925           0926           0927           0928           0929
> 0930           1001           1002           10021          1003
> 10031          1004           10041          10042          10043
> 1005           10051          1006           1007           10071
> 1008           10081          1009           1010           1011
> 1012           1013           1014           1015           10151
> 1016
> : cpu;
>