Re: Can you record DVDs on 7.2.1?

On Sep 2, 8:53 pm, tadamsmar <tadams...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 2, 3:09 pm, s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven M. Schweda) wrote:



From: tadamsmar <tadams...@xxxxxxxxx>

It is stupid of me to mock the people who I am asking to help me!

Or do a better job of it.

The question of how well CDRECORD will work on VMS 7.2-1 seems a bit
murky to me. But I am going to have to launch into an attempt to buy
the software and hardware to do it.

Ifr you can get it built, I'd expect it to work.

I had posted earlier on this topic and the info I got form that left
me concerned with that 7.2-1 has some sort of unspecified limited
support for CDRECORD.

Are you looking for _support_ or for a solution which works?

I will probably buy a DVR writer and some sort of SCSI converter to
connect via the SCSI port. Some earlier info seems to imply that the
USB port on the DS10 Alphaserver would be slow if it works at all for
this purpose.

The IDE interface might be slow. Getting any USB stuff to work at
VMS V7.2-1 might be worse than slow. At V8.3, the USB stuff seems to
work well enough for my purposes, but I haven't tried a USB DVD writer.

Then I guess I might have to locate a driver for this converter set
up.

You expect to find a VMS driver for anything not supplied by HP?
Good luck. If the adapter works without additional software, then you
might have a chance.

And I will install a version of CDRECORD.

I'd start there.

And then wade through all this an try to make it work.

Be careful. I hear that it's possible to drown in a pool only a few
centimeters deep.

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Steven M. Schweda sms@antinode-info
382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818
Saint Paul MN 55105-2547

OK, now that I am on the waterboard and beginning to feel simulated
drowning, I will tell you what I really want to do.

We had an old 1300T optical disk drive we were using for backups. It
went belly up and this DVD proposal came up.

The idea of buying a refurb 1300T did not fly.

This is for long-term archives where (the assumption is) DDS-3 tapes
would not last long enough, or be more subject to erasure.

So, what is a good option for such storage other than a 1300T? I
might be able to get the DVD decision undone if there was an easier or
better option.

Routine backup/restore is not necessarily the same as long-term
archiving with occasional retrieval. For example, for archiving, you
may well wish to think about handing your data over to a professional
archive contractor on some mutually convenient interchange format and
require *them* to worry about long term storage and retrieval. That
surely wouldn't appeal, or make sense, for the routine daily/weekly/
monthly backups.

Subcontracting out the long term storage+retrieval may become
particularly appealing if there are any legal requirements for
"records retention" in the picture; if you sub it out, to an extent
the long term readability issues become "someone else's problem" (at
least as far as management are concerned).

Mind you, when your archival contractor decides that their long term
storage format for CD/DVD "ISO" images is a hard drive on a server,
and then the server is sold with an intact unerased hard drive on
eBay... best say no more, lawyers may be reading:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/26/more_details_lost/
.

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