[SunRescue] Use of DEC 3/4 inch cd in Sun SS4?

[Darryl Barile]

You will need a rarely seen  cable to go from the SCSI terminal om the
motherboard to the CDROM.

If you chooses you can modify a Sparc 5 cable to work.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak" <bobkeys at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] Use of DEC 3/4 inch cd in Sun SS4?


> My SS4 does not have a builtin cdrom.  But, I picked up a DEC PeeCee
> server that is probably going to be parted out (bad karma machine with
> funky setups and that sort of thing).  The cdrom in the DEC box is
> IDENTICAL, except for color to the one in my office SS5 box.  My
> expectation is that if I reset the ID from DEC's 5 to Sun's 6, that
> it might work in my home SS4 box.  Is this something that should
> be doable?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
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