On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:57:49 -0500 
 "Eric W. Bates" <ericx@vineyard.net> wrote:

 > Can I use Sun's old single-speed CD drive with NetBSD?

I'm using one of those drives on an SS2.  Works fine.

 > I'm told that Sun played some games a while back in order to force
 > Solaris users to use only their drives.  Under NetBSD standard CD
 > drives work fine, but I would just as soon not have to junk the old
 > one.

I do recall that Sun made their drives also work with a 512-byte
blocksize.. this was so the PROM could boot from them.  I hadn't heard
about tricks they were playing with Solaris...

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