[rescue] IBM p44 DVD optical drive?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 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-)

8-)

I just thought the information might have been of benefit had Ray been 
Googling.

Peace...  Sridhar