Subject: Re: external CDROM drive suggestions
To: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.demon.co.uk>
From: Ronald Cotoni <setient@vlaxus.yi.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/27/2001 02:47:59
yes they do apparently those old external mac ones the 4x version they had
way back when work great i have not had a chance to try some of the newer
ones so do the internal ones if you open the case up and plug it in that
way but that is a last resort

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Julian Coleman wrote:

> > i suggest using a mac external cdrom drive the matasha ones work great i
> > have 2 never failed me after all scsi is scsi.
>
> Remember you need 512 byte block support to be able to boot a lot of sparcs.
> See what you can get and check the manufacturers' web pages for 512 byte /
> unix / sun / sgi support.  There's also the CDROM FAQ in the hardware section
> of www.sunhelp.org.
>
> J
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