[rescue] Sun IPX Cdrom Booting issues

Kris Kirby kris at catonic.net
Thu Dec 26 13:39:50 CST 2002


On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> Toshiba drives unless hardware patched for Suns will only work if you
> boot using "boot cdrom". This issues a change blocksize command that AFIK
> all toshiba and Sony drives honor. (but no NEC).

There may be a jumper or trace that needs to be cut before the CDROM will
use 512 byte blocks.

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