ESM4714
Scientific Visual Data Analysis and Multimedia

Working with optical media on the Viz Lab's: CAVE, I-Desk, and Octane

Comment: We encourage students to use their mountable 4.2 GB optical media. Using your optical media not only provides a conveninet way to move massive data sets between the CAVE, I-Desk, and Octane but it is an extra level of data security and backup. The write speed on these optical drives is faster that the old optical drives so most people use them as their own personal mountable hard drives. Please don't regard them only as backup media. As of February 17, 2003 optical disks only exist on the SGI Octanes (viz8.sv.vt.edu and tensor.sv.vt.edu)

Below we've outlined a procedure to check the status, initialize (create a new filesystem), mount and unmount your optical media on all the SGI's in the VT-CAVE laboratory as a menu option on the "Toolchest".

When you logon to the CAVE (cave.sv.vt.edu) or the Octane (viz8.sv.vt.edu) you will find a menu option "VT-Tools" on the "Toolchest" which is typically located in the upper left corner of the CRT.

Hold down the left mouse button on "VT-Tools and select "Optical Disk" and then select from the list: Check status, Mount, Unmount, Init / Erase.

Email questions-comments on CAVE conversion to Dr. R.D. Kriz
Email DIVERSE questions to Mr. John Kelso
Email CAVE hardware-software problems to Mr. John Kelso

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Ronald D. Kriz
College of Engineering
Virginia Tech
Revised February 17, 2003

http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/ESM4714/cave/opticalinstructions.html