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- From: schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz)
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for Sparc
- Message-ID: <SCHULTZ.92Dec18214747@halley.est.3m.com>
- In-reply-to: jclark@dac.org's message of 18 Dec 92 02:32:02 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 03:52:37 GMT
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- In article <jclark.0xgp@dac.org> jclark@dac.org (Jamie H. Clark) writes:
-
- Sun offers external 644-MB CD-ROM "SunCD" for SPARC machines and it cost
- around $800.
- ...
- Will any type of CD-ROM drive works fine with SPARC machines?
-
- I grabbed a CD-ROM drive we had on a SGI to install Solaris on a Sparc 2. SUN
- CD's would boot (with SCSI address 6) and the SUN could find the directories,
- files, etc. However, the installation from the non-Sun CD drive failed in the
- extract script with mini-root installed and the disk re-formatted.
- (PANIC CITY!!!)
-
- Apparently there is a special EPROM (?) needed to work with a Sun. (And
- maybe each other workstation).
-
- Anyway, generic CD drives won't probably work. Ask your vendor if they have a
- drive that works with a Sun (references?) or can modify the drive to work with
- a Sun. If they insist that no such modifications are needed get a new vendor
- or make them demonstrate that you can do an install from the drive.
-
- P.S. I was trying to use was a Toshiba from an SGI. I eventually swiped a SUN
- CD drive from another SUN at work to install SOLARIS.
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