DEC question: DVD drives and/or CDROM changers

I've never tried a non-DEC CDROM (never had to) but I do have a Yamaha CDRW which no longer writes, so I may try it out sometime. If it can be persuaded to do 512-byte blocks it will work, if it can't, it probably won't. The other rule of thumb is that if it works on Sun it probably works on a VAX (and vice-versa). I do not know if the InfoServer ESS code uses 10-bit SCSI commands and hence has an issue with drives greater than 1GB. I assume not because someone would have tried it by now and said so, but ... If you write your own DVDs and use ODS2 I doubt the infoserver would know the difference - just serves blocks doesn't it? It might even serve data DVDs even in UDF format. Streaming your latest movies might be a stretch though! Changes usually appear as sub-luns don't they? If so, then I think the OpenVMS driver can cope (that is, IIRC, why the naming convention is as it is - to allow for this very possibility). Let us know whether ESS sees multiple drives or not. Antonio -- --------------- Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org