[rescue] looking for CDROM case 68 pin

[Dan Williams]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Free" <mfree80286 at adelphia.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] looking for CDROM case 68 pin


> I've got a similar problem with a few drives of mine that I hope I can fix
> before too long. I need to re-install solaris 2.5.1 on my Axil 245, and
none
> of the 3 CD-ROM drives I have sem to function anymore. There's an unknown
> 4x, a ricoh 4x2x2 burner, and an old Sony that actually came from a sun.
The
> first two start, and then give errors, and the original Sony is now
handing
> me "The SCSI bus is hung...." trouble.
>
> I could make it easy and netboot, but there's apparently no RARP/BOOTP
> srevers available for the only other two machines I have in my network, a
> win2K AVS box and a powermac running OS 8.1... I may end up dragging out
an
> old PC and setting it up NetBSD just for a BOOTP server.
>
> Mike Free
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 1:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [rescue] looking for CDROM case 68 pin
>
>
> > "Paul Phillips" <paul at partitura.com> sez ...
> >
> > > I have my Sun bootable (supposedly) Plextor SCSI cdrom drive (bare).
I
> > > need to mount it in an external case.  Does anyone have a cdrom case
> that
> > > they would like to get rid of?  I'd really like a 611 case so it is 68
> > pin.
> > > All the 611 cases on ebay right now seem to be hard drive cases.
> >
> > If the Plextor in question has a jumper to set the block size, and you
set
> > it to 512 rather than 2048, it will almost certainly boot a Sun,  I
> > understand that Suns later than mine (LXes and Classics) will even boot
> from
> > 2048-block CD-ROMs, but I don't know the exact value for "later."
> >
> > There is room in a 411 case for a Plextor 20X CD-ROM drive and a
68-to-50
> > convertor; that's the way I had one set up for my LX.  Worked fine.
> >
> > -Shel
> > _______________________________________________
> > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue

I've never used them but

http://www.panix.com/~perin/rarpd.zip
and
http://www.panix.com/~perin/billgpc.zip  - bootp


Dan