Subject: RE: dumb non-NetBSD question about RRD40
To: Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>
From: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/29/1996 08:18:00
On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:

> Dave,
> 
> Yes it does. It's a special caddy and I've never seen any other player
> that uses the same.
> 
> Gunnar
> 
> --
> Gunnar Helliesen   | Bergen IT Consult AS  | NetBSD/VAX on a uVAX II
> Systems Consultant | Bergen, Norway        | '86 Jaguar Sovereign 4.2
> gunnar@bitcon.no   | http://www.bitcon.no/ | '73 Mercedes 280 (240D)
> 
> 
> >----------
> >From: 	Dave McGuire[SMTP:mcguire@neurotica.com]
> >Sent: 	28. november 1996 23:58
> >To: 	port-vax@NetBSD.ORG
> >Subject: 	dumb non-NetBSD question about RRD40
> >
> >Folks,
> >  Hey.  I'ms ure someone here knows about this.  I've never actually
> >used (or seen) an RRD40 cdrom drive...but now I have one.  I can't
> >figure out how to put a disk in the darned thing, though.  Does it use
> >a really thin caddy of some sort, or something like that?
> >

Yes it does. The unit is an LMSI (Philips) CM201. This unit has an LMSI 
to SCSI interface. See if you can get the caddy from a Philips 
distributor or DEC.

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