Subject: Re: CDROM drives
To: Andy Ball <andy.ball@earthlink.net>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/25/2003 16:18:59
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:39:14PM -0600, Andy Ball wrote:

> 
> 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 had very good success with Toshiba drives in the past on various
systems (Sun drives were historically rebadged Toshiba). They usually
"just work".

grant.