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(unrelated) Re: NetBSD on Digital Personal Workstation 433a
You can clean "old-ish" cd-rom lenses with q-tips and isopropanol. did
this with many drives, even dvd.
even my old caddy drives - not even 1x speed - of the collection read
"burns".
maybe this helps. some machines from dec are also picky about block
size (512/2048 bytes) but i think this was VAX time.
ymmv. good success!
On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 20:03 +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Not sure what is up with yours, but I had serious trouble creating a
> CD-R
> that would be readable by the old CD drives in my alpha. I ended up
> net-booting and installing that way.
>
> Martin
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