2 Oct
2007
2 Oct
'07
5:54 p.m.
At 4:54 PM +0100 9/30/07, Jules Richardson wrote:
Jason T wrote:
I've had very good luck with an external Panasonic 4x CD-ROM drive I
purchased new in '95 for my PowerBook 520c. It has worked on
everything I've connected it to. I've used it on both a Mac and PC
laptop, and on numerous DEC, SUN, and Amiga systems. My only SGI
systems have built in CD-ROM's. Another likely source would be old
Sun Hardware.
As I've previously mentioned I'm quite fond of Plextor caddy drives
for my PDP-11's.
If you're trying to boot an old enough version of VAX/VMS then I
suspect 3rd party drives could cause problems. I know the Hard
Drives will. I'd recommend OpenVMS 7.2 or 7.3 for greatest SCSI
compatibility. I simply only use DEC HD's on VAXen. Even though I
use 3rd party drives on my PDP-11's and Alpha's.
Zane
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My 3100/30 boots fine off the Hobbyist VMS disc
using my
boots-anything Apple CD300 (aka Sony) drive.
You got there first :-) Pulls of drives from old Apple systems seem
like a good bet - I've used a few on various machines which need a
512 byte block size. I normally use an Apple CD600, but it isn't
quite perfect - some SGI systems don't like it for some reason
(others do, as does everything non-SGI I've hooked it up to)