MDADS II disk drives -Reply

William D. Wansley (WWANSLEY@MAIL.MCG.EDU)
Fri, 06 Jun 1997 09:13:45 -0400

It sounds like you desperately need to upgrade your system. Why not
just buy an ELITE Flow Cytometer, or, if this is not feasible, buy
one of Cytomation's Cicero Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems
either of which can be connected to an optical drive, etc.? We have
done both and both systems normally work well.

>>> Flow Cytometry Facility <system@flocyt.int-med.uiowa.edu>
6/5/97, 05:33pm >>>

Greetings,
We are running samples that produce huge data sets on a Coulter
EPICS 753
with the "newer" MDADS II electronics console. Because of these big
data
sets, we have filled the MDADS disk drive (40MB) before the entire
tube set
was done on several occasions. We then have to offload the data to
our
file server (not exactly greased lightning) before running any other
samples which tends to play havoc with scheduling. This is a new
problem
for us in the 8 years of operating this instrument as we have always
been
fairly creative at juggling file transfer time with the schedule.
Has anyone successfully installed either a bigger disk drive or
another
disk drive in addition to the existing hard drive on a MDADS II? If
it is
possible to install an additional drive, does anyone have an old
drive
collecting dust that they would be willing to part with? Thanks for
your
help.

Justin Fishbaugh

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| Justin Fishbaugh |
| University of Iowa |
| Flow Cytometry Facility |
| 48 EMRB |
| Iowa City, IA 52242 |
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| justin-fishbaugh@uiowa.edu |
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