[Info-vax] Need CD-ROM drive for DS10

[Tom Adams]

On Oct 9, 11:45 am, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom Adams wrote:
> > I can get a DVD/CD reader from one store.  I don't think Best Buy
> > sells a mere reader.
>
> > Do you think any of these would actually work on a DS10 running 7.3-2?
>
>    Any of _what_?  With practically no information about any
> of these drives, on what should I base an opinion?
>
>    I have an XP1000 with one of these:
>
> Disk ALP2$DQA0:, device type SONY    DVD RW AW-Q170A [...]
>
> and it seems to do everything I've asked it to do.  I tried a
> Toshiba/Samsung "TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-162A  TS02" drive before
> that, but cdrecord had problems writing a DVD with it, so I
> risked another $25 (at the local MicroCenter store) on the
> Sony drive.  If all you really want is CD-ROM capability, then
> I'd be at least a little amazed if you could find a modern
> drive which didn't work.  My notes say that I could boot off a
> V7.3-2 CD-ROM in that SH-162A, so it was ok as a CD-ROM drive,
> even if I couldn't get it to write a DVD (with cdrecord -- I
> believe that I moved it to a Mac, where it worked fine).
>
>    Note that I have the IDE DVD-writer in my
> spare/experimental XP1000.  In my main XP1000, I have a SCSI
> DVD-ROM drive:
>
> Disk ALP$DKA600:, device type TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1711, [...]
>
> Which is lots faster than any IDE drive in this system (and
> doesn't use the whole CPU to do any I/O),  For CD writing, I
> have an old external SCSI drive:
>
> Disk ALP$DKB500:, device type YAMAHA CRW2100S, [...]
>
> As usual, many things are possible.

Thanks for the info.

Somebody just gave me an old CD drive that works.VMS says "device type
SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252S".