21 Jan
2001
21 Jan
'01
10:19 a.m.
My perfectly good XM5701 cdrom drive would not restore the VMS image to
disk. Instead it bombs badly. (Vaxstation 4000/60, OVMS 07.2b In
<200101200523.VAA00861(a)shell1.aracnet.com>om>, on 01/21/01
at 11:19 AM, healyzh(a)aracnet.com said:
> There are other brands which work for booting as
well, such as the Toshiba
> XM-5401B, XM-5701, etc which are probably less expensive than the DEC
> branded ones and work effectively the same.
I've gotten XM-5401B's for $5 apeice from a PC
scrapper before, they're
what is in my Alpha Workstations. What gets me is a RRD42 seems to cost
as much as a brand new PC CD-ROM!
Zane
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