On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Antonio Prioglio wrote:

> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:21:12 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Antonio Prioglio <a.prioglio@city.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> Cc: port-sparc64@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: CDROM drives
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Geoff Blake wrote:
> 
> > When I had this need, albeit on earlier Sun equipment, I bought
> > (second hand) a 2X CDROM in a 411 case and fitted a new SCSI CDRW
> > drive in the case. I guess the same would hold true with an Ultra 5.
> > 
> 
> Apart from the fact that U5s have no SCSI ...
> 
> BTW does anybody knows what kind of IDE cdrom is compatible with U5/10? 
> Google does not offer interesting cues ... (apart buy one)

Apologies, I have never played with non-scsi Sun kit - bit of a down
market move?  Could you not put a AH2940 scsi card in to boot it...or
netboot it from another machine? 

Geoff

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