NETower

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Hey there! I bought a Discport Discview Technologies NETower on eBay a while back. Its just a network tower with 7 CDROM drives. I tried to put it on hte network when i got it but it didnt show up, I was bored and decided to do a little research, not much online about it, but I did find the following text. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get the installer that is used in the quote below. Thanks.

Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 09:00:16 CST
From: Mike Williams <novell_at_sas@SAS.BROOKS.AF.MIL>
Subject: Re: CDROM for network - please advise

>I need to put a CDROM on the net. I would like to install a device
>that will connect directly to our hub (not server) and can be shared.

We use NETower, a tower case with 7 4X CD-ROMs in it. You can buy one
with only 4 CD-ROMs in it, but you always need more. It comes
network-ready, just specify 10BaseT or 10Base2 when you order. (Can
also get it for token ring). It came with its own cable. I just
plugged it in to a T-connector, ran a very simple Windows-based
install program on a workstation where I was logged in as supervisor,
then loaded the NLM at the console.
(It did require that I have CLIB.NLM ver 3.12f or higher, which I
didn't, but they provided it with the install disks).

Each time I add a new CD-ROM, I do a few simple steps to make it
available to the network:
- Insert it in 1 of the bays.
- Run the Windows utility, which will automatically discover the
new CD and display an icon for it.
- Select the icon, then run "configure"--takes about a minute.
- Then run "mount"--takes less than a minute.

The CD-ROM is now available to be mapped. If a user goes to file
manager in Windows and selects "disk" and "network connections", the
CD-ROM will be listed there along with the SYS: volume and any other
volumes that are mounted. (Assuming you give him rights to the CD
during the configure process).

You can tell it during configure to automatically mount the CD each
time it's inserted in a bay. I do that, so after the initial
configure and mount, I can remove and insert CDs and it automatically
makes them available.

This tower doesn't have to be anywhere near the server.
You can give them the administrator utility so they can install new CDs.

You can have up to 9 NETowers per server, for a total of 63 CD-ROM
volumes. Just remember that mounting a CD is like mounting another
hard drive--it uses RAM on the server.

It's available from SMS Data Products Group,
1501 Farm Credit Drive,
McLean, VA 22102-5004
(703) 709-9898
Technical Support: 1-800-331-1767.