Everhart, Glenn
From:	hoffman@xdelta.enet.dec.nospam
Sent:	Thursday, January 07, 1999 6:04 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: VMS 7.2 ALPHA DISK NOT BOOTABLE

In article <773c01$i4v$1@winter.news.rcn.net>, "Kenneth Randell" <kenr@datametrics.com> writes:
:The CD-ROM is internal PIONEER DR-U06S, which I realize, is not made by DEC.

  Please try a supported RRD series CD-ROM drive and see if that works 
  with the release -- we may well need to borrow and then look at the 
  Pioneer drive here in OpenVMS Engineering to see exactly what is going 
  on, which means you'll want to contact the customer support center to 
  get the effort rolling.  (This assumes that somebody here in OpenVMS
  has not already looked into this or a similar problem.)

  If this Pioneer CD-ROM drive was working with the field test, I would 
  tend to expect it would continue working.  As to what changed here, we
  will likely have to look at what SCSI traffic transpires here when the
  bootstrap heads west...

  I will assume that this Pioneer drive can be set to operate with 512 
  byte sectors.  If not, forget it and get one that can.

  For grins, try the following bootstrap flag, and see how far it gets:

    b -fl <root>,20000 <device>


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