[Info-vax] MicrovaxStation 3100 CDROM

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-06-01 23:22:18 +0000, David Wade said:

> Isn't the "block size" only important if you want to boot from the drive?

This is an install, which means booting, which means console boot 
drivers are involved, etc.

OpenVMS Alpha blocks and de-blocks 2048-byte sectors on optical media 
on IDE/ATAPI (DQ), but the OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX SCSI drivers 
(DK) do not provide that.

Go RRD, or Plextor, maybe Sun optical. Or InfoServer. Or swap a SCSI 
disk somewhere OpenVMS with better initial-load support.

If y'all want to try a 2048-byte sector SCSI drive, have at. Lots of 
reports of issues with SCSI opticals, in the archives of the olden 
daze. Hence inclusion in the FAQ, etc.


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