7 Sep
2010
7 Sep
'10
6:47 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
... the caddy would keep the CD from being scratched
in handling.
Eric
Which seems reasonable and obvious...
The RRD40 that I have was given to me so that I could learn the way of the
VAX and VMS. I have since found other CD drives that understand the special
way of reading the short CD sectors.
Today I am reminded of it, I am bound by honor to pass this drive on to
another VAX/VMS kinder. I will send this drive to someone that wants to
learn VAX/VMS and needs it to boot the OS.
-chuck
8 Sep
8 Sep
4:47 a.m.
New subject: RRD40 was :Re: Why CD carriers? was: Wanted: DEC RRD50 CD-ROM Manuals
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Charles Dickman wrote:
The RRD40 that I have was given to me so that I could
learn the way of the
VAX and VMS. I have since found other CD drives that understand the special
way of reading the short CD sectors.
DEC, SGI and perhaps others relied on CD drives that could think in terms
of 512-byte sectors. "Back in the day" (late 80s - early 90s) many SCSI
drives had a dedicated jumper for sector size. Seemed to be most common
on NEC units.
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