10 Apr
2002
10 Apr
'02
10:27 p.m.
I've used a plextor plexwriter, toshiba 2x, some noname
($29.95 new!) scsi successfully. The cdrom,(hobbiest)
does however not boot on any of them, though the standalone
backup does and that is used to copy the images to a small
RZ25 for actual running.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Schreiber <als(a)thangorodrim.de
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Half on, half off -- New CD-R drive and 512-byte blocks
7.1
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:27:50PM -0500, Dan Wright
wrote:
> I do know, from experience, that any SCSI Plextor CDROM/CD-R/CD-RW
will boot
> basically anything -- Sparc, SGI, RS/6000, HP,....
I've tried
plextors of
> varying ages (old 8plex caddy-loader up to a
12/4/32 CD-RW that's
about 1 year
old) and they
all work great...
In this case, I've got bad news or you. You might be out of luck trying
this with a VAXstation 3100. My VAXstation 3100 started to boot the VMS install CD, but barfed halfway through loading the
kernel. I was not
happy with either the 4x, the 8x or the 12 SCSI Plextor, nor with the
Toshiba drive (all set to 512 byte/sector). Ripping a DEC RRD42 out of
one of my DECstations finally did the trick. Seems like this machines
are rather ... touchy about what they boot from.
Regards,
Alex.
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