I tried two separate genuine DEC RRD42s.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, John Maier wrote:

> 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/
> > >
> >
> >
>