Half on, half off -- New CD-R drive and 512-byte blocks - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Apr 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com] 
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  You may have the answer, here, in that IF it's a
SCSI device 
 (which it is) and
 IF it's capable of behaving as a reader (which it is) then 
 it's up to the SCSI
 subsystem to move the data into the system.  IF the device, 
 in whatever mode
 it "comes up" in is able to read the SCSI CD, then it should 
 be no different
 than any other CD drive, irrespective of the ability to write 
 the device. 
For what it's worth, I tried on a MicroVAX 3100 last night, but it
didn't work too well.  (Just set there, basically)

I might try a few other things.  Doc mentioned he had trouble 
booting VMS with some drives that would (somehow) otherwise work,
so I'll probably try the SPARC (Really, would you consider running
anything other than VMS on a VAX? :)

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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