In my experience, ADSM treats optical disks as sequential media that
need to be reclaimed.

Bob Price

Westinghouse I & T Information Systems
11 Stanwix Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Email:   pricerr AT westinghouse DOT com
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>From:  Peter Talajic[SMTP:pmt2f AT uottawa DOT ca]
>Sent:  Thursday, September 12, 1996 11:29 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       Optical Libraries and ADSM
>
>Hello everyone.
>
>Does anyone have experience, suggestions, comments, etc., on the use of ADSM
>and Optical Disks?  As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail, we are looking into
>new ADSM server hardware, and the subject of read/write optical disks came
>up..
>
>For those in the know, does ADSM treat these disks as truly random access
>volumes?  I mean, it does treat them as a type of disk, not as sequencial
>media or something equally strange..
>
>Thanks.  Peter.
>