Everhart,Glenn
From:	hoffman@xdelta.enet.dec.nospam
Sent:	Friday, April 03, 1998 2:06 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: CD-ROM drive compatibility vith VAXstation

In article <35221030.13668533@news.hol.fr>, simuinfo@hol.fr (Service Informatique) writes:
:I have a problem with a CD-ROM drive. I have connected an external
:CD-ROM drive (Apple CD300e SCSI) on a VAXstation 4000 M60.

  OpenVMS expects the CD-ROM supports 512 byte blocks -- various
  CD-ROM drives support only 2048 byte blocks, or 2048 and 512.
  If you want to be assured a particular I/O widget will work,
  please consider acquiring a new or used DIGITAL widget -- we
  have gone through the device integration and testing hassles
  with these devices.

  The following was seen in the sig file of Lee Sharp over in the
  comp.dcom.net-management newsgroup, I have no idea of the real
  origin of the quotes:

  > SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
  > necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
  > Black holes are where God divided by zero.

  As humorous as these comments might appear, SCSI device integration
  and testing does sometimes leave one exceedingly puzzled as to how
  SCSI even occasionally works.  :-)

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