[rescue] CD ROM

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:46:23PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> I'll do what I can about the Vax.  I just hope that this place doesn't
> have a policy like Pfizer.  Pfizer actually pays the manufactor to take
> the machine back and destroy it  Blech.

i hate places like that.

> Anyway, I'm having trouble getting the scsi CD-ROM I bought for my HP and
> SS2 to work.  However, I notive that the CD-RW that I bought (yamaha
> CDRW4260t) has a jumper labeled block size.  Does this mean that if I swap
> it to the external bay it should be able to boot the machines that require
> a 512block?  That would be convienient, since I wanted to get an external
> case for that drive anyway.

that jumper should do exactly what you are expecting it to do.  so pop that
badboy in an external enclosure and you have a boot/burn drive that can be
hooked into anything.  not a bad setup.

cheers,

-brian