On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Martin Husemann wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:21:12AM +0000, Antonio Prioglio wrote:
>
>> BTW does anybody knows what kind of IDE cdrom is compatible with U5/10? 
>> Google does not offer interesting cues ... (apart buy one)
>
>Anything. Doesn't even need to do UDMA of any kind (which the U5/U10 internal
>(crap) IDE controller doesn't support anyway).
>
>So everything doing IDE should just work. [There is no such thing as the
>different block size apparently used for some Sun SCSI CD-ROM devices]

I'm not even sure that recent revisions of OpenFirmware require the 512 
byte block support for boot. In any case, I've heard that solaris will 
install off a 2048 byte block CD-Rom even on old hardware.

For those in the UK, there are cheap CD-Roms from Scan, though I can't
attest to their quality or block size selectability (except the Plextor 
ones.):
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/cdrom.htm

>
>Martin
>

Christian

PS. I'm not associated with Scan!

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