I have an extern Plextor 8220 which in that past I have used for booting a
ss10/20 off of. I haven't tried with a sun4u, but I would imagine that it
would work. The drive does have an external dip switch for setting the
blocksize.

Ron

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Andy Ball wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:39:14 -0600
> From: Andy Ball <andy.ball@earthlink.net>
> To: port-sparc <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: CDROM drives
>
>
> Hello Rick,
>
>    RMK> What vendor stocks an external drive that will boot
>       > on sparc and sparc64 that will actually boot from a
>       > CDR burnt disk.
>
> I would love to know.  I've been on the lookout for an
> external SCSI CD-R/W or CD-ROM but they seem to be a dying
> breed.
>
> I've just pulled an AppleCD 300i Plus (Matsushita CR-503-K)
> from a Mac in the hope that I might be able to install my
> SPARCstation from it.  I don't know if it does 512 byte
> sector support, if it'll read CD-Rs or if the SPARCstation
> will even talk to it.  I'll have to invest in some cables to
> find out.
>
>    - Andy Ball.
>
>