[SPARCbook] Re: 3000XT PCMCIA cdrom problem

[Mat Maessen]

Hmmm.... my KXL-D740 seems to use 2048 byte blocks (or so 
/var/adm/messages seems to say). Though I've never tried booting from 
it. Perhaps there are different firmware versions or an internal jumper 
to set this?

Also, does anyone have a source for a short _flexible_ 50-pin SCSI 
cable? I'm using a Sun SCSI cable w/ my drive, and it's very bulky to use.

-Mat

Martin Marshall wrote:

> Ken and Jason:
> 
> I just booted my 3GX from the Panasonic KXL-D740 CDROM.  As Ken said,
> set it to SCSI ID 6 and turn on the termination (this is done with the
> dip switch on the bottom of the drive).  Connect it to the SPARCbook
> SCSI connector.  You will need a SCSI2 to SCSI2 cable.  The CDROM seems
> to use a 512 byte block, since there is no switch to select the block
> size.
> 
> I also had never tried to boot from the KXL-D740.
> 
> Cool - it works.
> 
> Martin
>