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Subj:	Re: NEC Multispin 74 CD reader

From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
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Subject: Re: NEC Multispin 74 CD reader
Message-ID: <1993Aug26.223153.2604@cmkrnl.com>
Date: 26 Aug 93 22:31:53 PDT
Organization: Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego, CA
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In article <1993Aug26.082757.18176@alpha.montagar.com>,
 davidc@alpha.montagar.com (David L. Cathey) writes:
> In article <1993Aug24.155929.1277@nbivax.nbi.dk>, nilsson@nbivax.nbi.dk writes:
>> 
>> We have a NEC Multispin 74 CD reader, which we have tried to use
>> on a VAXstation 3100 with VMS 5.5-2. It works as a generic SCSI-2
>> device (e.g. as device GKB400) with audio playing programs. How-
>> ever, I would also like to use it for reading "normal" file-
>> structured disks, but here I fail.
>> [...]
> 	Try mounting it /FOREIGN.  

It won't.  I know; I tried it with the NEC 84, same as the 74 except it's
a bare drive. 

> If it mounts that way, it is probably 
> sectored wrong.  Some SCSI disks (the Sony/RRD42 for example) can sector at
> 512 or 4096 bytes by playing with a jumper.  This drive may be similar and
> require playing with a DIP switch or jumper.

Best approach is to sell the CDR-74 to someone who doesn't need it to run on 
a VAX.  Get a Sony CDU-541 instead.  Get the -561 if you want the latest and
greatest Sony drive, but the -541 works fine. 

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego CA
drivers, internals, networks, applications, and training for VMS and Windows NT
uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and 
Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG 
Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com (JH645)  Uucp: uunet!cmkrnl!jeh  CIS: 74140,2055