Re: (unrelated) Re: NetBSD on Digital Personal Workstation 433a

[Dustin Marquess <dmarquess%gmail.com@localhost>]

I seem to recall block size still being an issue on some of the Alphas?

I had an external SCSI CD-RW drive that I kept just because it
supported the 2k block size, and since it was SCSI, it made it easy to
use with all of my Alphas...

-Dustin

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 2:58 PM Michael Kronsteiner <alphamike%gmx.at@localhost> wrote:
>
> You can clean "old-ish" cd-rom lenses with q-tips and isopropanol. did
> this with many drives, even dvd.
>
> even my old caddy drives - not even 1x speed - of the collection read
> "burns".
>
> maybe this helps. some machines from dec are also picky about block
> size (512/2048 bytes) but i think this was VAX time.
>
> ymmv. good success!
>
>
> On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 20:03 +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > Not sure what is up with yours, but I had serious trouble creating a
> > CD-R
> > that would be readable by the old CD drives in my alpha. I ended up
> > net-booting and installing that way.
> >
> > Martin
>