On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, David Bobart wrote:

> Thanks, I actually looked inside and compared what I found to the diagram I
> have and it looked fine. I will have to take it apart to see if thats
> actually the case. Anyone know when booting from CDRom was first supported
> in VAX firmware? I have a 3100/30 and it can't boot from CDRom it seems.
> Also, anyone seen any good deals on Qbus SCSI controllers. The Al's attic
> website mentioned previously on the list wants several hundred dollars for
> this hardware.

My 3100/30 boots happily from a CDROM, i'd say the problem is with the
CDROM itself, what kind of CDROM is it? VAXen get very upset if the CDROM
does not default to a block size of 512 bytes, i eventually gave up and
got a RRD40 :)

Cheers
Karl



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Karl Maftoum
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