[SPARCbook] (no subject)

[sparcbook at sunhelp.org]

Ken,

Thanks for the quick reply. Let me ask this:  Was the data " SunOS Release 5.5
... (sd6):" obtained by reading the CD? If yes, does
this imply that the beginning of the CD has 512 byte blocks and the rest
of it has 2048??

Oscar Farah





Your plextor drive should have a jumper on the back, for something like
sector size. You need to change that jumper from whatever it currently is
to
boot the off the drive.

It may be known as boot block, sector size, unix boot, or something else -
it is *not* TERM, Parity, or test, these are the other jumpers that should
be available...

You can try and look up a manual at the Plextor site, or you can look up
the
SUN CD_ROM FAQ off of sunhelp.org.

HTH,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: <Oscar.G.Farah at census.gov>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:47 AM
Subject: [SPARCbook] (no subject)


> 1. I purchased a copy of: "Solaris 2.5 for Sparcbook 3 Version D.0" from
> Tadpole to install on my 3XP.
>
> 2. Using the "probe-scsi"command, I got the following response for the
> cdrom:
>
> Target 6
> Removable Read Only Device      Plextor CD-ROM PX-4XCS 1.011005/94 18:00
>
> 3.  When I gave the command "boot cdrom",  I got the following response:
>
> SunOS Release 5.5 Version D.O [UNIX (R) System V Release 4.0]
> Copyright (c) 1983-1995, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> Copyright (c) 1992-1996, Tadpole Technology PLC.
> WARNING: /iommu at 0, 10000000/sbus at 0, 10001000/espdma at 4, 8400000/esp at 4,
> 8800000/sd at 6,0 (sd6):
>
> 4. Then after a while:
>
>        Rd capacity block size (512) disagrees with sector size (2048)
>
> 5.  And was not able to go further.
>
> I have no experience with Tadpole ...  Can any one tell me what I am
doing
> wrong and what I can do to install the operating system.
>
> PS.  the internal hard drive is target 3, the floppy target 5 and the
> CDROM is new - undamaged.  the 3XP has 64 MB ram and 1 GB drive.
>
> Oscar Farah
>