8 Sep
2010
8 Sep
'10
4:47 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Charles Dickman wrote:
The RRD40 that I have was given to me so that I could
learn the way of the
VAX and VMS. I have since found other CD drives that understand the special
way of reading the short CD sectors.
DEC, SGI and perhaps others relied on CD drives that could think in terms
of 512-byte sectors. "Back in the day" (late 80s - early 90s) many SCSI
drives had a dedicated jumper for sector size. Seemed to be most common
on NEC units.
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