16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
10:41 p.m.
On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:30 PM, <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
SHOW DEVICE will tell you what it sees on the bus, but that's
probably just whatever shows up in the SCSI ID. It's probably
not until you try to boot that an incompatibility would show up.
Well the device inquiry SCSI command doesn't involve a block
number, so yes, this would be correct. The limitation is the number
of bits in the SCSI CDB that are used to represent logical block
numbers.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
VAXen (and Sun boxes) want 512-byte sectors (or,
rather, something
that emulates 512-byte sectors). If it boots a bootable OpenVMS CD
then it's comaptible :-)
Oh dear. That's the best way to tell?
Is there any incantation I can type at the firmware monitor
to tell me if it "sees" a device as a CD-ROM? Or is being
seen as a CD no guarantee?