CD-ROM drive for VAXstation 3100 Model 76 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Jan 2001

I'm using a Toshiba and works great.  Tried several sanyos, and even
a Cdburner (scsi) all worked.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: THETechnoid(a)home.com &lt;THETechnoid(a)home.com&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Sunday, January 21, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for VAXstation 3100 Model 76

...
 I tried several drives from different makers.  All were
512byte jumperable
...
 and would boot backup from the cd, but when you try to
perform the
restore, the system bombs.

After about a week of diddling, I went and got an RRD40.  Slower than
molassis in January, but it works and the others didn't.

Regards,

Jeff

P.S.  From experience, you don't NEED a caddy for an RRD40.  I don't have
...
 one either.  I just opened the drive and replaced the
disk already inside
...
 it with my VMS install cd.  You need at least the
horseshoe part of the
caddy, but not the whole thing.

Regards,

Jeff

In &lt;20010119.235201.307.0.william.webb(a)juno.com&gt;om>, on 01/21/01
   at 11:01 AM, William W Webb &lt;william.webb(a)juno.com&gt; said:

>Fred, do a search for RRD40/42/43.  These are the original DEC CD-ROM
>drives that I absolutely positively know will work with these boxes- they
...
 >are jumperable to do 512 or 2048 byte sectors. (VMS
requires drives that
...
  do 512.)

 RRD40s are really old and need a caddy. 
 You might be interested to know that I've got
the Owner's Guide for the
VAXstation 3100 Model 76 online at: 

http://www.whiteice.com/~williamwebb/intro/DOC-i.html 
 I'm considering doing the VAXstation 4000 VLC
manual next, but only if
there's a demand for it since that much HTML pretty much by hand is a
real bitch. 
 William W. Webb 
 I don't know if it's outside of the scope
of this mailing list to talk
about things for sale, but I've got hold of some old 64 x 64 bit core
frames that would look really nice in a shadowbox or under glass as a
desktop doodad.
Mfr. Lockheed Electronics Corp. 
 I can also lay my hands on a 4K module (9 frames
with diode arrray
connector cards) 
 If anybody's interested, drop me an email and
we'll talk about price. 
 Apologies in advance if I've transgressed.
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