[SunRescue] CDE ramblings (was: Solaris on older Sparc boxes)

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, paul pries wrote:

> Seems like we have some guys here who are good at HP stuff... :)
> So lets continue this totally off topic string. First a quick 
> question; What's so special about HP CD Rom drives?
> I tried to boot my 715/50 from a sun cd-rom drive but no go.
> Anyone have a clue about this?

What kind of Sun cdrom drive?  I use a Toshiba XM4101B (from a SS5) to
boot all my HP's and it's worked flawlessly.  My old Texel (Plextor) drive
didn't work at all.

HSC in Sacramento had a huge stack of genuine HP workstation CDROM drives
the last time I was up there.  I think they were asking $30/ea, might be
worth looking into if you can't get anything else to work.  This is
mounted in the HP external enclosure with 50-pin SCSI connectors.  Not
sure if they had the (external) powersupplies, but they put out +5 and +12
so it would be easy to build a replacement.

> How about the 715/50? It is not in the official lists of 11.0 supported
> machines. I could try it but it is much easier to ask... ;)

Go for it.  There is some hardware that will not be supported but the base
machine should work.

BTW, I'm looking for a cheap copy of HPUX 11.0.  10.20 is easy to get but
HP wants $$$ for 11.  A 100baseT card for the 712 would be nice but I
don't think they ever made them.  :)

-James