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Re: removable media and ASIP sharepoints

For the price of the firewire DVD drive, you might consider purchasing a
firewire hard drive for either the ASIP box or the PC. Put the hard drive
on the ASIP server and everyone can get to it; 4 DVD probably have at max 25
GB of data so for $200 you can buy a firewire hard drive (assumes you have
at least 1 DVD drive somewhere on your network to read the originals and
load them onto the hard drive);

Even cheaper, would be increasing or adding a second hard drive to the PC
and using Nero Image drive to mount the DVD images as a drive letter. For
about the same amount you could add more internal storage to the ASIP box.
We recently purchased a 250GB Western Digital (I think) HD and a controller
card for our ASIP G3. It seems to be working fine---the total cost was
probably about $500*.

-- The real solution is to throw out the white box PC and buy another one;
as the monitor and applications can be reused you can get a brand name
(Dell, HP, etc.) with Windows XP and a DVD drive for $700; If the machine
is that flaky it's not worth spending any more time or money on it; (The
cost of a external firewire DVD will be close to the half the price of a new
PC!);

*FYI, although the card and OS can see a 250GB drive as one big partition,
Norton Utilities chokes on it. As we occasionally need to run Norton, I
formatted the drive as two 125GB.

Ken



----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Scheide" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:30 AM
Subject: re: removable media and ASIP sharepoints


> >I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to accomplish, but might it be
> >an option to make images of these 4 discs and have user(s) mount the
> >image for their needs?
> the user needs/wants removable storage for managment of many large
> Microscopy images. My ASIP server has insufficient space, and lacks any
> further expansion (via internal drive).
>
> The original intent was to install a firewire DVD-RAM/DVD-R drive to the
> PC the user works on. Howeve, the PC is some generic white box builtby
> one of the microscope vendors, and the logic board apperently has issues
> (it will not accept NT or 2000K as OSes, only 98) and when we attecth the
> DVD drive to the 98 PC the computer freezes. We tried 2 differnt
> Firewire cards - no happyness in Whoville.
>
> So- the next concept was to add the DVD drive to the ASIP server so she
> could get to it. But of course this means that different disks would be
> in use at different times.
> therfore the problem of sharing removable media.
>
> Firewire was selected as conection method because of it's portablilty,
> for later use elsewhere.
>
> -------------------
> Chip Scheide Systems Coordinator
> Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
>
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