27 Jan
2006
27 Jan
'06
5:02 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:12:38 -0800
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 12:00 PM -0700 1/27/06, Richard wrote:
SCSI CD-ROM drives that support 512-byte blocks aren't nearly as
hard to find these days as they once were. There are now tons of
obsolete Macintosh machines with suitable drives. Just about any
beige-box PCI Power Mac (i.e. the 7200/7300/7500 systems) has a
CD drive in it that will work. Something I was happy to discover
a few years back, after which I started putting Apple drives in a
lot of my Sparc boxes that didn't have drives.
There are still people who advertise 'cd-rom drive that will work
in your Sparc' deals on eBay but they are mostly opportunists at
this point.
Well, if I am going to get the latest OpenVMS
hobbyist edition, I'd
need to hook a SCSI CD-ROM drive up to it. I think I have one on the
shelf somewhere.
It needs to be more than just a SCSI CD-ROM, it must support 512-byte blocks.