[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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