[SunRescue] Looking for early sun cdrom drive for sun3+sun4 machines

BSD Bob bsdbob at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu
Tue Nov 16 09:08:37 CST 1999


> > Anyone got a spare EARLY MACHINE COMPATIBLE sun cdrom of some sort?
> 
> yeah.... I've got one of those old 2-spinners. Old, slow and ugly, but it
> reads about anything.
> It's a Sony  *something* from a 4/470.

Well, I guess the next question is...  what would it take to abscond it
from your cloistered gemittenfingerpokins to make my old 4/260 smile?
Is it a bare drive, or in a case....  etc., etc., etc......(:+}}...
All I really need is the bare drive.  But...., we beggar types can't
be too choosie, at this point.

> > (also, if anyone ever comes up with a spare sun4 pair of sunos 4.x tapes
> > I would be interested in those, too.  Someday.....)
> 
> Got them too...  At least one set, probably two or three...

Well, likewise on that too.  Which particular sunos release tape set?
I much prefer booting tapes, over CD's on the old hardware.  It just
works better in my hands.  The existing tapes I have are 4.1, but the
first tape of the pair of mine is nuked in the usr tarball and beyond.
I need either the tarballs of usr and beyond on the first tape of a
4.1 set, or a replacement 4.1 first tape or tape set, or any 4.x usable
tape set, all for a sun4 class cpu.    I need to get the monster purring
again.....(:+}}...  It has been sitting too long, and I would rather
not have to convert it to a 3/xxx class machine, just to get it purring.

Thanks

Bob







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