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  • Date: Jul 7, 2018 4:31:15 PM

Magneto-Optical Disk

1 MOD Overview

Magneto-Optical Disks (MODs) labeled (formatted) for storing images have a DOS-like structure. MODs formatted for software have a UNIX structure. There are some DOS MODE commands in /usr/g/bin to help you view and copy files between the Image Archive media and the system. The size of DICOMDIR indicates how much space images are taking on the MOD. You must use Image Works to DETACH, then do another dmls in a shell to see an updated size.

dmls - list files of current directory

dmcd <path>  - change to the directory identified by path

dmcat props - show content of the file props, which tells you the properties of that media

dmcat stat - show content of the file stat, which shows last time media was used

dmcpin -b <dosname><unixname> - copy file on media to the system

2 Sony SMO-F551-SD MOD Jumpers

2.1 GE Specific Jumper Settings

GE specific settings for the Sony SMO-F551-SD MOD drive are shown in Figure 1. See Table 1 for descriptions of the Functional Switch connectors.

Figure 1. Sony MOD drive functional switch - GE specific settings

2.2 Jumper Descriptions

Figure 2. Sony SMO-F551-SD (MOD) connectors (rear view)