I had a similar problem with my /240.  I had a old Mitsumi SCSI 1x and
a new 4x CDROM worked okay.  Seems that there are just some bad
implimentations
of SCSI on some old CDROM....but then my CDROM could be broken....

jam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sridhar Ayengar" <sridhar@ikickass.org>
To: "Simon Burge" <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: CD-Boot problems


>
> I put the CD into my Wintel box and when I looked at it, there was indeed
> a boot.pmax in the root directory of the CD.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Simon Burge wrote:
>
> > Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >
> > > Do I have to do anything special to write a CD-R in 512-byte sectors
under
> > > Windows or anything like that?
> >
> > Not that I know of, but I've not had much to do with burners.
> >
> > > Nero, the program I'm using seems to want
> > > to write in 2048-byte sectors.  Does this cause problems for pmax
boot?
> > > Whenever I try to boot my 3100 I get an error (I will provide the
error if
> > > necessary... it isn't in front of me right now) and when I try to boot
my
> > > 5000/200, I get the following error after the primary bootstrap starts
to
> > > load:
> > >
> > > Can't load '5/rz2//boot.pmax'
> > >
> > > followed by a couple of similar error messages with different
filenames.
> > > The CD boots just fine on an i386 (it is set up to boot on either).  I
> > > would appreciate any help.  Thanks.
> >
> > Can you mount the CD and see if there is indeed a boot.pmax in the
> > rootfs of the CD?  The first stage prints the "Can't load ..." message,
> > so that means you've run installboot successfully.
> >
> > Simon.
> > --
> > Simon Burge                            <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
> > NetBSD CDs, Support and Service:    http://www.wasabisystems.com/
> >
>
>