Hi CHARLES! :-)

 CA> I was thinking of zipdrives and CD burners but yes, read-only
 CA> media it wouldn't necessarilly matter all that much. 
My ZIP drive locks the door (but it remembers that I pressed the eject
button and ejects after umount). Can't say for the DVD/CD burner during
writing - would be the job of the recording program. I could try with an RW
disc.

 CA> EDS forces many employees to work from their homes and be on
 CA> call 24/7. I got the impresssion someone was encouraged to make
 CA> last minute changes late that evening and didn't test it before
 CA> allowing it to be queued into the job cycle that night. 
Sounds like a very unfriendly working environment and EDS at least
partially have themselves to blame when things go wrong, then... ;)

 CA> I am going to do more research into MO drives and may have to
 CA> bite the bullet and get one and some disks to store my more
 CA> valuable data on. :-) 
I haven't looked at prices recently, but I guess the drives are still
expensive and the discs relatively cheap (more expensive than writable CDs
but cheaper than ZIP discs). Last time I bought 640MB MO discs, one costed
the same as one 100MB ZIP disc.

Ciao
Pascal

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