Subject: Re: Non SUN SCSI CDROM an sparcstation IPX running NetBSD
To: Charles Hannum <mycroft@deshaw.com>
From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/07/1996 09:17:11
> In article <9601062254.AA22655@tamarugo.cec.uchile.cl>
> tlobel@tamarugo.cec.uchile.cl (LOBEL RASCHKOW THOMAS) writes:
> 
> 	   I am trying to find out if a pc style SCSI CD-ROM,
> 	   that is, one with a 2048 byte sector size, can be made
> 	   to work on an IPX running NetBSD.
> 
> It should work just fine; the CD-ROM driver doesn't rely on a
> hard-coded block size.


It will work, but you will not be able to use it as a boot device. The
difference between a Sun CDROM and others is just that the default
block size is 512 (not 2048/22??) so that the boot PROM can treat it
as a boot disk :)

Regards,
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