Press Release

MO-SOL for Solaris 2

For Release 2:39 PM
August 11, 1995

INSTAR Corporation is pleased to announce the release of its latest MO-SOL software product. MO-SOL, Version 5, is a high performance Sparc Solaris 2.x and SunOS software interface package for Optical Disk Drives using erasable media; 3.5", 5.25", and 12". Supported optical disk drives include: HP 1716T, Sony F531, Olympus MOS525E, IBM 0632, MaxOptix Tahiti III, Panasonic 7030, and many more.

With MO-SOL and a single SUN host computer, users can access Gigabytes of information stored on one or more optical disks. Users treat the optical disk drive as a standard SUN hard disk drive. MO-SOL supports all SUN disk drive interfaces, thus allowing all SUN applications transparent access to the optical disk drive, and it's bootable! MO-SOL insures reliable operation of the optical drive, thus avoiding possible data corruption.

MO-SOL includes: a device driver, operation and diagnostic utility programs, a GUI, on-line man pages, and a comprehensive user manual. Optionally, users can purchase a developers package that includes C Libraries for building applications that need to closely interact with the optical drive.

The standard MO-SOL package, part number MO-SOL/M2P, has a suggested list price of $450 US ($650 CDN). For additional information and to place orders, please contact INSTAR at 403-264-SCSI, or by email: sales@instar.com. ODI-SOL demonstration software is available at our ftp site: ftp.instar.com. OEM and reseller inquires welcomed.