Re: writing cdhdtape to CD

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

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ray Phillips<r.phillips%uq.edu.au@localhost> 
wrote:

> I don't know much at all about the CS20--what vintage are they?  The only
> original CD drives I've come across in my limited experience with Alphas
> which can read CD-R/W media were in an ES40 and an XP1000, relatively recent
> machines.

Their codename is 'Shark' and they're part of the 'Tsunami' family.
They were made by Alpha Processor Inc (API) and later OEM'd to Compaq
as a DS20L.  They were very popular in Cray builds (mine was a Cray
pull, even has the Myrinet card in it).  They are 1U systems with 2
EV68AL CPUs (usually 833Mhz).  Max out at 2GB RAM, an onboard LSI SCSI
controller, and Acer EIDE controllers.  Mine at least has a Samsung
SN-124 24x EIDE CD-ROM.

-Dustin