[Info-vax] Alpha DVD

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-22 14:56:43 +0000, Eberhard Heuser said:

> Am 22.06.2016 um 15:11 schrieb Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax:
>> On 2016-06-22 02:12:11 +0000, David Froble said:
>> 
>>> Does anyone know if any Alphas came with DVD drives?  Did ant itanics 
>>> come with CD drives?
>> 
>> The IDE/ATA/ATAPI-capable Alpha boxes can have (and some were even 
>> supported with) DVD drives.  HP sold a few specific DVD drives with/for 
>> Alpha, as part of that.   All of the Plextor drives I've tried worked 
>> well with OpenVMS, too.   The DVD+R/RW formats and media are likely to 
>> work better with some of the tools than the DVD-R/RW stuff.
> 
> If you put in a DVD in a SCSI-DVD drive the drive switches to 2048 
> bytes per I/O. The Alpha bootstrap cannot handle this.

SCSI DVD?  Those are rare.  It wouldn't surprise me that's there are 
problems booting those, but then I've not particularly worked with one 
either.


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