16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
5:33 a.m.
A lot of old NEC drives have this. I picked one up at a Goodwill for $7 -- Ian
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Reed [geoffr at zipcon.net]
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:18 PM
To: cctalk
Subject: Re: Booting a VAXstation
On 3/15/10 12:07 PM, "Sridhar Ayengar" <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Ian King wrote:
Toshiba SCSI cd-roms have jumpers that can be cut to set it to 512 byte
blocks, and plextor SCSI cd-rom drives have a jumper for doing so.
I have found such CD-ROM drives to be both
plentiful and cheap at local
second-hand stores. Since they won't work with a PC, they have 'no'
value....
There are many many PC-compatible CD-ROMs that also talk 512-byte
sectors. There might be some in your/his pile already.
I have installed the core of VMS and booted from
a small-ish drive, but you
rapidly run out of space. -- Ian
Is it possible to boot VMS in a small partition in the beginning of a
disk and have another partition elsewhere? I've never had cause to try
this, since I have a giant pile of 500-1000MB disks lying around.
Peace... Sridhar