Re: CD written on Alpha won't mount on Integrity DVD ROM

etmsreec@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 5 Aug, 21:26, baldrick <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

Thinking back to when I first tried cutting CDs for VMS, have you
considered the drive and the level of "reflectivity" on the disk? On
older Alphas I found that the CD-RW disks were useless as they
couldn't be read. Is a similar thing happening here do you think?

I can MOUNT/FORE the CD no problem, and even start to DUMP it so it can be read...

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

>
> There are many people in the Unix world who seem to be having similar
> problems, they can read factory made CDs without problems but the home
> brew CDs just will not work! Some drives seem to work better than others.
>
> The conventional wisdom on the Unix side is, to burn using the slowest
> possible speed.

This CD was written at 8X on a 16x capable drive, I also tried a 4X written disk, and the media speed always faster than that quoted.

But I can use the CD on Alpha and VAX, why is the Itanium rejecting it?

What other media are people using (I am using RITEK (=TRAXDATA among other brands)

Nic.

PS. Didn't manage to try the virtual connect yet...


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