[rescue] Advice: Netra T1 AC200 CDROM woes

[Jerry K]

Bill,


FWIW, I picked up a Netra X1 with out a CDROM, or even any place to put 
it a couple of years ago.  The X1 does not have a slot for an optical drive.

I just opened the case, hung an old IDE drive off of the controller 
chain and went forward from there. Once I had an OS, I pulled the drive 
and closed the case back up.  The correct solution would have been to 
boot it off of a jumpstart server, but I didn't have that available to 
me at the time.

The OBP version on that X1 is 1.0.2 with a date of 23 April 2001.

Hope this helps.

Jerry K


Jonathan Katz wrote:
> Is it possible it needs an OBP update to see the IDE bus/CD-ROM? (if
> indeed it is an IDE CDROM?)
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Bill Blum <bill.blum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've got a Netra T1 AC200, 1G of RAM that I bought off fleabay.
>>
>>  It came with *no* CDROM installed.
>>
>>  Is it theoretically possible to use a slimline CDROM drive out of a
>>  PC?   I mean, it'll fit and all-- but I can't get OBP to acknowledge
>>  it's existence.
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