2.  When doing
a show dev on a VS3100/40, the cdrom drive should show
    up on the device list, right?  (I suspect I goofed up the wiring on the
    CDROM case) 
 Is the CD-ROM turned on?  I won't say how long it took me to figure out
 that the external CD I put on my new DEC 3000/300LX last night started out
 turned on so I was actually turning it off. <grrr> 
 
Heh.  Thought of that.  The drive can eject when you push the button so the
power IS on.
 3.  can someone answer conclusively for me whether
the vaxstation expects
    the disk to have parity enabled?  The lists I've read don't seem very
    sure. 
 Not quite sure what you mean here.  It expects 512k blocks, if you want to
 boot off the install CD.  However, I believe it will read CD's in standard
 drives once the system is up and running. 
 
I should clarify.  Does it expect its internal hard disks to have parity turned
on or not?
  Why bother unless you're short on memory.  You can
get UCX as part of the
 Hobbyist program, and apparently two more TCP stacks will be available on
 the Hobbyist program around the middle of this month (sorry can't remember
 which ones).  On the other hand this assumes you can put your hands on the
 media somehow. 
Therein lies the problem.  I can ftp CMU down and (if VMS knows about ISO9660
out of the can) hopefully install it from a home-made cdrom.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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