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- From: pgf@space.mit.edu (Peter G. Ford)
- Subject: Re: Can you run a CD ROM on a Sun 3 running SunOS 4.x.x?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.024006.14568@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:40:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.192412.26919@news.columbia.edu> gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
- >
- >We'd like to upgrade a Sun 3/60 to 4.1.1, and we were wondering if
- >we can run the Sun CD ROM drive off of it using a SCSI adapter. We
- >don't have the drive yet (it's going to be borrowed) and we will use
- >it for our Sun 4's ... since we can't experiment, we'd like find out
- >from anyone who's tried.
-
- Yes, easily. However, if your CD-ROM disks use the ISO-9660 format with
- extended attribute records, you must first install a patch in your SunOS.
- Look in the src/SunOS.4.x.CD-ROM.patch file in the anonymous ftp server
- space.mit.edu for the apprpriate adb commands.
-
- Peter Ford
- MIT Center for Space Research
- NASA Planetary Data System Microwave Subnode
-