Volume Mgmt of Optical Disks

[Diane Armstrong]

We have the HP5200EX Optical Drive which we use to archive live data continuously. We are prompted when the disk is full and to insert the next in the series. Can someone explain if this process would be a function of HP's driver software or our more likely some third party application which may be running on this SUN Station.

[meloni]

hi
Optical disk works like any removable media, (like a floppy) so the disk full can be generated by os if you use a file batch to write on it or by a software application.
marino

[Eugeny Brychkov]

Hello Diane,
driver is a mid-ware which offers high level applications to access hardware devices. So it simply converts standard requests to device-specific requests.
Data allocation on the disk, media management etc are responsibilities of application software - either OS built-in (like NTbackup in windows or tar/fbackup in hpux) or 3rd party like CA Arcserve, HP Omniback etc.
So in your case you need to install exact that software you had running backing up data, configure it in the same way and then data should be available for restore
Eugeny