[HECnet] My newest toy

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> writes: 


On 13 Jan 2013, at 21:09, Fred wrote: 

Also, to save me from starting another thread, was wondering if anyone
= had a 50-pin internal SCSI CDROM that's capable of booting OpenVMS. 
The = old one I have in my other Alpha (the 255/233) seems to get upset
when I = put the caddy in and immediately eject it, disc or not.   Would
pay = reasonable amount plus shipping to 44870. 

Hunt down a Pioneer SCSI DVD-303 aka HP A5220A. I've used one to boot a
= VAX (as well as a bazillion other things), I presume they work on
Alphas = too. There's a few on eBay. 

As long as it can be jumpers to present 512byte sectors instead of 2048
by sectors, it should work.

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