Dual-booting my DEC 4000-710 at last!

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Thu May 30 01:44:19 2002

>One problem... we tried to put a CD-R of the AXP/VMS 6.1 disc into
>the RRD42 and it didn't like it. Has anyone else had any experience
>with DEC CD-ROM drives and burned media? Do I need to get a different
>drive here? Will a Sun-compatible SCSI CD-ROM drive work in place
>of an RRD42? (in case the 512 byte/2048 byte sector thing is an
>issue).

I have the same problems with an RRD42 here.
Two RRD43s and a TOSHIBA XM-3401TA all work well.
My RRD44 spat out a CD-R when I tried it just now
(but that may be a bad CD-R).

I suspect it's an age thing - an RRD46 would
probably be fine.

Antonio
Received on Thu May 30 2002 - 01:44:19 BST