20 May
2021
20 May
'21
2:26 p.m.
[[ apologies for top-post: Y! issue ]]
I know that to be bootable on DECstation/VAX/early Alpha, CD-ROMs needs to be jumpered to
512-byte blocks. Like RRD4x.
Does the burning CD write need to be jumpered to 512-bytes? Or can one write on a
"normal" CD burner, then read on a 512-byte-block CD-ROM ? If the former, I
guess I'll have to find an old, 512-byte-block jumperable SCSI CD burner.
On Thursday, May 20, 2021, 02:15:39 PM PDT, Christian Groessler via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 5/20/21 11:05 PM, Jonathan Stone via cctalk wrote:
? MacOS (Mojave) can mount an image read from a
512-byte UFS CD.
What does one have to do (Linux, MacOS, *BSD) to write such an image to the CD with
512-byte blocks, so it can be read by a DEC boot-ROM?
I think that's a property of the CD drive, not the disk itself.
I've got a Plextor CD writer which can be jumpered between 2048 and 512
byte blocks.
I was able to boot the Ultrix installation CD (MIPS) on a DECServer.
regards,
chris