Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> writes: On 13 Jan 2013, at 21:09, Fred wrote: Also, to save me from starting another thread, was wondering if anyone = had a 50-pin internal SCSI CDROM that's capable of booting OpenVMS. The = old one I have in my other Alpha (the 255/233) seems to get upset when I = put the caddy in and immediately eject it, disc or not. Would pay = reasonable amount plus shipping to 44870. Hunt down a Pioneer SCSI DVD-303 aka HP A5220A. I've used one to boot a = VAX (as well as a bazillion other things), I presume they work on Alphas = too. There's a few on eBay. As long as it can be jumpers to present 512byte sectors instead of 2048 by sectors, it should work. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.