[rescue] External CDROM drive for Indigo2

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I recently acquired an Indigo2, but it doesn't have any input mechanism
> (no floppy/cdrom). I know I can tftp boot it, but I'd like to have a
> working cdrom drive attached to it.
>
> All I have in the arena of external SCSI cdrom drives are Sun drives, and
> they don't seem to work properly on the system at all (they definitely
> don't boot). Googling led me to a lot of older information, I was hoping
> the list would be a bit more up to date.

Make sure that the SCSI ID for you CDROM is set at 4. And also note that
the CDROM will be in the SCSI bus 1 (external) not 0 (internal).

Any sun compatible should work to boot the I2, since both use the same
block size (not feecee size).

Cheers.