[rescue] Cdrom and floppy specs

[Michael A. Turner]

	Heh I want a floppy for my mental completeness. Every machine I have
ever had, from my apple ][c to until now has had a floppy. When I think of a
mental image of a computting machine it has a floppy in it. Silly I know but
it's like a mental burr if I have a machine I want to use and it has no
floppy. I know in my head it does not matter, but my subconcious will not
let the idea that it should have a floppy die. It makes me twitchy if one of
my machines does not have one and can ( I don't feel this way about dumb
terminals)

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sandau [mailto:ssandau at bath.tmac.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:46 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Cdrom and floppy specs


Do I remember that a CDROM on SPARC needs 512 block size in order to be
bootable? Also it needs SCSI 6 on an Ultra like a SS20?

*Why* do you want a floppy in a SPARC? ;)

"Michael C. Vergallen" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Michael A. Turner wrote:
> 
> >
> >       After a recent trip to get a bunch of stuff I now have in my
> > possesion an Ultra 1 and a sparc 4 that both have the same "problem" .
> > Neither one of them has a cd-rom or a floppy drive. Now I could net boot
and
> > all that other nifty geeky stuff, but I want to put these parts in in
order
> > to make it easier to use for stupid stuff.
> >       Now the questions. Whta kind of floppies do these beasties take?
are
> > they standered PC type floppy drives? can I just strip a PC system and
throw
> > those floppies into these systems? I also have a dead IPC that I can
strip a
> > drive out of, is this the same type of drive?
> I would think that the IPC floppy will work in the 4 but you will need the
> right floppy cable. for the Ultra I don't know because I don't have one
> yet.
> >       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.
> 
> Michael
> 
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