[Info-vax] rx2600s on eBay

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

vaxinf at chemie.uni-konstanz.de wrote:
 
> It's impossible to boot from a SCSI-DVD or SCSI-Acard-IDE-DVD
> because the drive only understands 2048 block commands whereas
> VMS wants 512 Byte blocks per I/O.

Last time I did a VAX/VMS install I tried a CD-ROM
drive with a 512/2048 jumper and it still wouldn't
install.  I then copied the whole CD to a SCSI
hard drive and it installed just fine.

I also have SCSI CD-RW drives with such jumper, but 
I might not have had one at that time.  

SCSI DVD-ROM or DVD-RW drives may or may not
have that ability.  Small SCSI hard drives are
pretty easy to find and reasonably priced.

-- glen