On Sun, 3 May 1998 13:51:57 -0700 (PDT) 
 rickgc@calweb.com (Rick Copeland) wrote:

 > Will a standard SCSI cdrom work with a SS2 or is there something special
 > about a Sun cdrom that requires the use of one to work?

If you want to boot from it, it has to be a Sun CD-ROM; they have a
firmware hack that allows 512 byte sectors, so the Sun PROM can just
treat it as a disk.

If you don't plan on booting from it, any old SCSI CD-ROM should work.

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