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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: CDROM Problems
- Message-ID: <u021be0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 05:25:42 GMT
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- In <1h65bnINN2q7@tamsun.tamu.edu> n303bn@tamsun.tamu.edu (Jason Rosson) writes:
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- | I've got a problem with a CDROM and an Indigo Elan. The drive is a
- | Texel DM-3024 Internal drive, it's SCSI-2 compatible. My kernel got
- | corrupted and I'm trying to reinstall IRIX 4.0.4, the only one I've
- | presently got. I hit <Esc> to perform system maintenance. Then
- | use option 2 : Install System Software. At this point the
- | problem occurs :
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- You almost certainly won't be able to use the drive for installation.
- It won't default to 512 byte logical blocks, which older proms,
- including r3k indigo require (similar to Sun). Indigo can handle
- the fact that it identifies itself as a CD-ROM, older PROMs require
- that it like and identify itself as a hard disk.
-
- Similarly, since we could only test a couple of CD-ROM drives for
- ISO-9660 and the cdplayer, so it probably won't work there either
- (we check the inquiry string for Sony or Toshiba).
-
- Sorry...
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