[Info-vax] rx2600s on eBay

[Rich Jordan]

On Mar 23, 4:25 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Pioneer made a SCSI DVD writer DVR-S201; they're somewhat older/slower
by modern standards and apparently still quite expensive when you can
find them.

I wonder if you could use a recent IDE model with an ACARD IDE bridge
to do the job.   I have a Yamaha "SCSI" CDRW (the F1 model) that is an
IDE drive with a Yamaha supplied SCSI bridge board in my PWS-600au
that has worked fine, so maybe its a feasible solution for DVD writing
as well.

If you search fleabay for SCSI DVD* there are a number of less
expensive DVD readers listed; as long as the Itanic is able to boot
DVD media on the SCSI bus thats probably the cheapest solution.