Re: VaxStation vs. Infoserver

Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann wrote:

My DVDwrite program that just comes out as Version 6.0 burns
all media mentioned above (+DVD-RAM) and burns Blue-Ray discs (BD-R,BD-RE) with a capacity of 23 GB under OpenVMS.

That's good. Congratulations. (Seriously.)

I do expect to see the COPY/RECORDABLE_MEDIA tool updated over time, and would also tend to expect to see more formats officially added. (The tool itself is at V1.0-1, BTW, and I expect to rev that as I add drives and formats.)

I don't happen to have BD or HD drives (nor the requisite stacks of blank media for testing) around in my collection, or I'd be looking at those in more detail. I do have DL, and DVD-R/RW drives around. I've side-tested specific formats and configurations with a few select third-party drives as well, though there will not likely be official support for those.

There is no shortage of "fun" in this area of course, as the new recording drives and even the firmware in current drives are moving targets, and no two drives are seemingly ever alike, and the Alpha junk I/O buses are themselves rather entertaining. (Accordingly, there are diagnostics and supporting tools provided in the OpenVMS distro, and diagnostics within the recording tool itself. There are also latent mechanisms that allow the tool to be more easily integrated into DCL procedures, such as DCL symbols, too.)
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