Hi -- I'm the original owner of a VAXstation 4000 model 60 which is still going strong with OpenVMS 7.2 (thanks to the DECUS hobbyist program) ... but I'm having a little trouble keeping up with the trailing edge of technology on two fronts: * I'd really like to add a 3.5-inch diskette drive (RX26? RX33 ?) to this system. I recently discovered both the GNU "MTOOLS" and Madgoat "PCX" software pacakges for VMS (which read/write MS-DOS disk formats ... MTOOLS will also read/write DOS files from an external SCSI 100Mb ZIP-drive connected to a VAX), but usually it would be much more convenient to use 3.5-inch diskettes (which is a common demonator among almost all PCs) rather than ZIP-100s. I've not had any luck searching for used RX?? drives on the net (plus I'd need the bezel, mounting bracket, etc). Suggestions on where I should be looking instead ??? <Thanks !-> * I bought a 3rd party SCSI CD-ROM (Pioneer DR-506S 32x) and have it in an external enclosure. I have the 2048/512-byte per block jumper on the drive "off" for 512-bytes per block. The drive is visible and reported properly from the console firmware, before booting to VMS, there are no SCSI-id conflicts, and my SCSI cable lengths are short. But when I attempt to mount a disk under VMS 7.2, a "medium offline" error message is returned. Curiously, if I attach the same drive & cable to an Alpha 600au workstation running OpenVMS 7.1-h2, the drive works fine. Hence I suspect that the OpenVMS 7.2 SCSI driver on the VAX is somehow to blame ... anyone know of any patches(?), or SCSI CD-ROM drivers from earlier VMS/VAX versions which might work ? Or what about exchanging the Pioneer DR-506S CD-ROM for some other 3rd party (i.e., affordable) SCSI drive which folks have used successfully with OpenVMS/VAX 7.2 ? Any suggestions would be appreciated. A few months back I'd put this question to the folks at "Accorn Software" who'd written a software utility/driver "MODISK" to enable older versions of OpenVMS/VAX to operate 3rd party CD-ROM drives ... but their product isn't supported (doesn't run) under OpenVMS versions 7.0 and beyond ... they didn't think it needed, as this functionality "should" now be part of the baseline OS. Anyway, I'd appreciate hearing from anyone with ideas on these items. Thanks much, -- Jim McCarthy jkmccarthy(a)pacbell.net