[Info-vax] Compatible DVDs

[H Vlems]

On Sep 24, 10:07 am, Heuser <vax... at chemie.uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
> On 24 Sep., 00:17, John Santos <j... at egh.com> wrote:
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> > In case anyone has never noticed, the HP web site is
> > "Hopelessly Pathetic".
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> > I'm trying to configure a system for a customer (actually,
> > we've already done so, the order is ready to go in, just
> > trying to cross a few t's.)
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> > Amongst other things, it consists of an rx2660 (VMS, of
> > course) and 3 Proliant DL165 PC's (two running Solaris
> > X86 and one Linux, for various historical reasons.)
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> > Anyway, all 4 boxes have writable DVD drives, and I'm
> > trying to tell the customer what kind of DVD media to
> > get, DVD+R, DVD-R, etc., so naturally I want to specify
> > something that will work on all 4 drives.
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> > The rx2660 has an AD143A drive and the 3 DL165's have
> > 447891-B21 drives.
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> > There appears to be *absolutely no* information on this
> > subject on the HP web site.  The closest thing is the
> > quick-spec for the rx3600 (different server, but the same
> > drive), which says HP-UX (some version) only does DVD+R's,
> > but it isn't clear if this is a drive restriction or an
> > HP-UX restriction, and if it is an HP-UX restriction, if
> > it only applies to some old version of HP-UX or to the
> > current version (not being familiar HP-UX version numbering,
> > lack of "or later" or "or earlier" or "before version xxx"
> > in the note renders it useless.  But if it applies to *all*
> > versions of HP-UX, why the hell did they bother to include
> > a version number in the note?)
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> > Almost all the links Google found were for places willing
> > to sell me the various drives, but none of the ones I checked
> > had any technical info; if anything, they just pointed me
> > back to the HP site.
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> > The HP links Google found when I added "site:hp.com" either
> > pointed to a useless picture of the drive (with all the
> > documentation links resulting in "No documentation found"),
> > or to sales pages citing prices in British Pounds.  (I'm
> > in the USA?!?)  Or to more non-documentation pages at the
> > hp sites in either Malaysia or Thailand!?!?!
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> > I finally found something that looked remotely like technical
> > docs on the HP site, and it was, but the wrong sort.  It was
> > a nice set of pictures and text describing how to install
> > the 447891 drive in a PC.  But no links to specs or anything
> > actually useful.  (Though the pictures were nicer than those
> > in the installation sheet that came with the same drive on
> > another system, which I happen to have a copy of.)
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> > This page had a feedback form at the bottom of it, which I
> > tried to use, but when I clicked "submit", it came back with
> > a page not found.
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> > What a waste of several hours;  I could have driven to MicroCenter,
> > bought a bunch of DVD's of each variety, brought them all with
> > me to the customer site next month (when the system will get
> > installed), and tested them all in each drive to see which
> > ones work, cheaper than trying to surf for the info.
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> > The helpful (non-HP?) people who brought us CDRECORD probably
> > know just what kind of media work best with the VMS drive,
> > but does anyone know for the different (and probably incompatible)
> > Proliant drive?
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> > --
> > John Santos
> > Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.
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> I'm not aware of any actual DVD-recorder that supports DVD+R(W)
> exclusively.
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> It is a pure software question:
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> OpenVMS has DVD+R(W)/CD-R(W) support build in since V8.3.
> If you want to use all feature of your DVD-burner you can use
> cdrecord or DVDwrite. Both are free available. DVDwrite
> supports USB-drive, too, that is not available for cdrecord.
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> Have look at the following site:
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> www.dvdwrite.de
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> Hope this helps
> Eberhard- Hide quoted text -
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Umm, had a look at that site and it said:
"The price for a single machine license: 400 Euro."
That's a lot of money IMHO.
Hans