[rescue] IBM p44 DVD optical drive?

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:50:59PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Ray Arachelian wrote:
>> Hope this isn't too OT, but I've got an IBM p44-170 with a SCSI CDROM
>> drive.  I'd like to upgrade it to a DVD-ROM and be able to boot off
>> install media with it.
>
> The real name of the machine is "44P-170" or "7044-170".  This is a  
> machine which pre-dates the "pSeries" nomenclature.

In Sridhar's case, the "p" stands for "picky". 8-)

Bill

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