[rescue] 712/60 CDROM (was SOG)

[Steve Sandau]

I have had good luck with all the older Sun boxes using Sony CDU55s's
(older 2x SCSI). At home, I have something identified as MDI SE53CD that
boots my SPARC2 and 5 as well as my HP9000/715. (Unfortunately I don't
have any OS that loads right on the HP, but it boots to a HP-UX 8xx
series OS disk and to a Linux CD, I think...)

Anyway, both of those have worked with anything I have tried. FWIW.

Mike Katchabaw wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah I was using a Sun Caddy cdrom. Which CDROM would you recomend?
> >
> > I reccommend Plextor.
> 
> We had similar issues with 715s.  Could not get them to boot of of Sun
> cdroms that everything else seemed to like.  We had luck with both a
> Toshiba 4x caddy drive (can't remember the model number, but I can check
> if you like) and an IBM 1x caddy drive.
> 
> > > I believe I tried it with an external Plextor CDROM drive also to no
> > > avail.
> >
> > Did you have the block jumper set on? That forces the drive into 512 byte
> > block mode.
> 
> You may also want to check the media you are booting off of.  If you
> are using a burned CD, the older drives that we found to be most
> successful with those boxes don't like some burned CDs.  (That was
> snafu #2 that we hit - I don't know if was the color of the CDR or
> what it was.  I remember it taking several attempts with different
> media to get it going.  Ugghhh.)
> 
> Mike.
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Steve Sandau
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