[Info-vax] Compatible DVDs

[John Wallace]

On Sep 24, 1:48 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> John Santos wrote:
> > In case anyone has never noticed, the HP web site is
> > "Hopelessly Pathetic".
>
> Isn't that a trademark owned by Mr Vaxman™ ?
>
> You forgot to add a * and a footnote that says "Hopelessy Pathetic™ is a
> trademark owned by Mr. VAXman, used with permission"
>
> (and yes, Mr VAXman will be mad at me for using a character above 127
> causing that pesky quoted printable to kick in. :-) :-)
>
> > The rx2660 has an AD143A drive and the 3 DL165's have
> > 447891-B21 drives.
>
> Mr Google to the rescue: AD143A = DVD+RW
>
> 447891-B21:
> This HP 1U 9.5mm 24X Combo Drive Kit is designed to read DVD-ROM discs
> as well as CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-RAM discs, providing users with backwards
> compatibility in their ProLiant environment. The drive is offered in
> both half height and slim line form factors to support most ProLiant DL,
> ML and hp tc servers. This CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive is an ATAPI based
> product, providing industry standard connectivity. It is backwards
> compatible with CD-ROMs, CD-R and previous DVD products and is available
> for embedded, CTO, and as a self-contained option kit.

JF, where did you get that description for the Proliant (44789-B21)
drive? It confirms my suspicions (starting with the Proliant
quickspecs) that the drive in question will write CDs but is read-only
for DVDs, which may not be what Mr Santos wants. I have a vague
recollection that at one point Proliants were using the same Multibay
technology as was used in CPQ laptops, which might be helpful if
applicable here, though (1) Multibay has afaik gone from current
designs (correction welcome) (2) there's the small matter of whether
the drive is "supported", which may or may not matter to Mr Santos.