[Info-vax] MicrovaxStation 3100 CDROM
abrsvc
dansabrservices at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 1 22:08:04 EDT 2022
On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 9:52:41 PM UTC-4, gah4 wrote:
> It was pretty many years ago by now, but I did try to boot a SCSI CD-ROM
> drive with the 512 byte jumper, and it didn't work. Instead I copied the whole
> file to a SCSI disk drive raw device, and booted that.
>
> So I don't know why it didn't work.
>
> Anyone working on these machines should have at least a few SCSI disks,
> or adapters to newer SCSI disks.
>
> I first loaded NetBSD onto it, and then VMS. I don't remember more details.
If no other viable options are available or work, I do have RRD40 and RRD50 drives available.
Dan
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