23 Apr
2013
23 Apr
'13
4:22 p.m.
On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:09 PM, David Riley
<fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Turns out it works if I turn sync mode off for the CDROM. It
makes a certain amount of sense, I guess; it's a REALLY old
external CD drive that came with a Mac LC 475, which was one
of the '040 Macs right around the beginning of the CD era, so
it's certainly possible that it's just a finicky old drive.
There's nothing that leads me to believe it's anything more
than a 1x, though it is at least tray-loading, so it's quite
possible it just doesn't do sync transfers; at 150KB/s, why
bother?
- Dave
Are the firmware images still available somewhere? I want to see
if updated firmware will fix the hang problem I'm having booting
the VMS 7.3 CD (it boots, but hangs while trying to start the
standalone backup; this happens when my Pioneer CD drive is
jumpered for 512 or 2048 byte blocks). I can't seem to find CMD's
site anymore, though I could swear someone linked it around here
not long ago.
Oh, and BTW, I have never had any issues booting the VMS 7.3 CD on
KA630, KA650, KA655, and VAX 4000 CPUs from CMD CQD-220/TM with
Plextor SCSI CD-ROM drives. I doubt it is a CQD-220/TM firmware
issue, but you never know...