Half on, half off -- New CD-R drive and 512-byte blocks

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Wed Apr 10 09:35:40 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick_at_idcomm.com]

> You may have the answer, here, in that IF it's a SCSI device
> (which it is) and
> IF it's capable of behaving as a reader (which it is) then
> it's up to the SCSI
> subsystem to move the data into the system. IF the device,
> in whatever mode
> it "comes up" in is able to read the SCSI CD, then it should
> be no different
> than any other CD drive, irrespective of the ability to write
> the device.

For what it's worth, I tried on a MicroVAX 3100 last night, but it
didn't work too well. (Just set there, basically)

I might try a few other things. Doc mentioned he had trouble
booting VMS with some drives that would (somehow) otherwise work,
so I'll probably try the SPARC (Really, would you consider running
anything other than VMS on a VAX? :)

Chris


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