[rescue] Cdrom and floppy specs

[Loomis, Rip]

To give some advice that might be more useful:
1.  The SPARC 4 needs a slimline internal CD-ROM
	that's rather hard to find--you may want
	an external CD-ROM for use with it, or
	(better yet) just install a CD-ROM in the
	Ultra 1, install Solaris, set up jumpstart,
	and do a boot net.
2.  If the 4x SCSI CD-ROMs have a jumper for
	setting the block size, then ensure it's
	set to 512 (the other option is 2048).
	If there is no jumper for block size, then
	you *might* get lucky and just have
	everything work, since the Ultra 1 would
	have a fairly recent OBP.
3.  If you can't use any of the ones you have,
	I strongly recommend picking up a Plextor
	CD-ROM or CD-RW--they're 100% reliable,
	every one I've seen has had the blocksize
	jumper, and I've used up to 24x in Sun
	boxen.  Pioneer slot-load 24x drives are
	another reliable choice if you don't want
	to deal with trays.
4.  I haven't tried to use a PC-style floppy drive
	in an Ultra 1.  PC-style drives didn't work
	when I played with them in older SPARC
	boxen, so I wouldn't spend too much time
	trying to get them to work.  If you're
	networking these, why floppies?  I can't
	tell you the last time I put a floppy disk
	into a SPARC box...

Good luck--
  --Rip

> > 	CD-rom, obviously scsi of course. What are the 
> limitations on what
> > kind I can use? Anything to look out for, any particular 
> gotchas? I got some
> > scsi 4 speeds laying around should I just stick those in 
> and will they fit
> > (stadered 5 1/4 form factor).
> The Four speed will work if you put it in a external case and set the
> jumpers correctly.