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Hello Pascal - 

CA>> I was thinking of zipdrives and CD burners but yes,
CA>> read-only media it wouldn't necessarilly matter all that
CA>> much. 

PS> My ZIP drive locks the door (but it remembers that I
PS> pressed the eject button and ejects after umount). Can't
PS> say for the DVD/CD burner during writing - would be the job
PS> of the recording program. I could try with an RW disc. 

I seem to recall this was in reference to shared devices when
one user is allowed to interfere with what another is trying to
do? 

CA>> EDS forces many employees to work from their homes and be
CA>> on call 24/7. I got the impresssion someone was encouraged
CA>> to make last minute changes late that evening and didn't
CA>> test it before allowing it to be queued into the job cycle
CA>> that night.

PS> Sounds like a very unfriendly working environment and EDS
PS> at least partially have themselves to blame when things go
PS> wrong, then... ;) 

I don't like anything I hear about EDS the past few years. I
will be much happier when my son-in-law finds another company
to work for. 

CA>> I am going to do more research into MO drives and may have
CA>> to bite the bullet and get one and some disks to store my
CA>> more valuable data on. :-)

PS> I haven't looked at prices recently, but I guess the drives
PS> are still expensive and the discs relatively cheap (more
PS> expensive than writable CDs but cheaper than ZIP discs).
PS> Last time I bought 640MB MO discs, one costed the same as
PS> one 100MB ZIP disc. 

At least you get 6.4 x's the storage capacity. :-) 

It will add costs but losing data is unacceptable (for me). 

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