[Info-vax] rx2600s on eBay

[Steven Schweda]

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> I was just wondering, how hard is it to find SCSI DVD-ROM
> or DVD-RW drives?  I still have SCSI CD-RW drives, but
> no DVD drives.  Otherwise, copy the DVD to a SCSI hard
> drive and mount that on the SCSI port.

   SCSI DVD-ROM drives seem to be relatively rare.  I got a
few at one of the local junk stores a while ago.  Better than
IDE in an XP1000, where the IDE stuff is dreadfully
slow/CPU-consuming:

alp $ show device /full cd1

Disk ALP$DKA600:, device type TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1711, [...]

I used one in a Sun 611 box to install the OS on my rx2600
systems.

   I've never seen a SCSI DVD-writing drive.  I have a Sony
IDE DVD-writing drive in my spare/experimantal XP1000 (where I
care less if the CPU is overwhelmed by a simple job).