Earlier this week I asked about using a CD-ROM player on non-sun4c
machines. To briefly recap:
> Sun claims that their CD-ROM drive does not work on 4/110, 4/140,
> 4/260, 4/280 machines, and "MUST" be on a SS[12] on the network...]
People were unanimous that any of these machines can READ from Sun's
CD-ROM. The problem is in booting.
Below I will summarise the information I received for the various
machines. First a few general comments:
GENERAL:
One must include HSFS in the kernel.
One person said that regular (non-Sun) CD-ROM's will work for UFS
and HSFS mounting, but will never work as a boot device.
Young Minds writes drivers for Toshiba CD-ROMs on a variety of
Sun machines. They may have a driver for Sun's CD-ROM also.
Their phone number is: (714) 335-1350.
Sun is unlikely to ever support their CD-ROM on non-sun4c machines.
"Open systems: we're opening our warehouse to sell you lots more
iron."
4/280:
The rev levels necessary to boot are:
boot prom >= approximately 2.8 (some confusion here).
In terms of cpu/SCSI revs:
cpu rev level 26, SCSI-3 rev level 11: boots
cpu rev level 12, SCSI-3 rev level 4: doesn't boot
Another approach is to get the Sun Common SCSI Arch (SCSA) driver
as a special from Sun Consulting. This is bundled with the sun4c
machines.
The cable Sun ships won't work. You need a SCSI-1 (Centronics-like)
on one end (for the board) and an SCSI-2 connector on the other
(for the drive).
4/260:
No information on revs necessary to boot.
You have to either open up the pedastal and hook the CD up to the
extra connector that runs from the 1/4" tape drive, or buy the
SCSI Host Adaptor from Sun.
4/110:
One person reported that he could boot with:
b sd(,30,1)
with a boot prom without a sr device.
FINALLY -- I have been amazed at the number of people who took the
trouble to mail helpful well thought out information; most arrived
with 12 hours of my posting. In > 10 years of reading the news I have
never seen such a high signal-to-noise ratio as this group, or
experienced such a volume of helpful replies. The "honor roll" follows.
robinson@med.unc.edu (Gerard A. Robinson)
brossard@sic.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
John A. Murphy <jam@philabs.Philips.Com>
bparent@calvin.UCSD.EDU (Brian Parent)
J Eric Townsend <JET@UH.EDU>
Christopher Hoover <ch@lks.CSI.COM>
J Eric Townsend <JET@UH.EDU>
eplrx7!mcneill@uunet.UU.NET (Keith McNeill)
milt@pe-nelson.com
Fons Ullings <fons@nat.vu.nl>
shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay)
Michael Squires <mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Mike Raffety <ronnoco!miker@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
kevin@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
mikulska@ece.UCSD.EDU (Margaret Mikulska)
geertj@ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot)
rcvie!cc_gucky@relay.EU.net (Gerhard Holzer)
mp@allegra.att.com (Mark Plotnick)
Chip Christian <chip@allegra.att.com>
"Anthony A. Datri" <datri@concave.convex.com>
cfoley@arsenic.cray.com (Charles Foley)
alux5!lbd (Leslie Dreyer +1 215 770 2795)
bierma@nprdc.navy.mil (Larry Bierma)
brw@hertz.njit.edu (Brian White)
pomeranz@isis.dccs.upenn.edu (Hal Pomeranz)
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
doug@perry.berkeley.edu (Doug Neuhauser)
kuhn@math.harvard.edu (Robert Kuhn)
napier@ames.UCSD.EDU (Jim Napier)
bcook@Kodak.COM (Bill Cook)
grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi)
-- David Harrison | "We place no reliance on virgin Dept. of Physics, Univ of Toronto | or pigeon, Inet: harrison@faraday.physics.utoronto.ca | Our method is science, our aim Uucp: ..!uunet!utgpu!utfyzx!harrison | is religion" - Crowley
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