[rescue] RE: "Don't go twistin' my SCSI cable..."

[Ken Hansen]

The cable had a *big* nasty two-piece ferrite *bar* across the cable, so I couldn't twist it :^(

Of all my complaints, the one I dislike the most is the need to hard-wire the CR-ROM to a particular address - granted, it may never be an issue, but that nice SCSI ID selector is just going to waste...

I bet an IDE-based CD-RW drive would work in the Blade 100 IDE, the CDRECORD software should work OK - but you could already figure out the logic, the real question is the reality, and that I can not speak to.

You know, Sun is shipping CDRECORD on their "Companion" CD for Solaris 8 on SPARC, there must be a readme-type document that could address that question...

Ken

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Message: 17
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:34:13 -0500
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Q: Regarding 411 boxes (tape drive/Open Front)
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:02:46PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
>     FInally, the SCSI connector was Upside down, so I had to "flip" the
>     connecter board by removing the 4 screws around the two SCSI
>     connecotrs on the back. When I flipped the connector board, the
>     power connector on the SCSI board was pinching the SCSI ID
>     jumper (but since I had to remove it anyway (see above), that
>     was not a serious problem.

I usually am able to "twist" the SCSI cable so that I can plug it in
correctly without having to "flip" the connector on the case.. tight,
but it works.

> (PS - Best Buy is having a sale on Philips CD-RW drives, IDE - useful
> for folks with ide-based Suns, or PCs and want to burn their own Solaris
> CD images. They cost $69.95, plus sales tax, and there is a $40 rebate.

Anybody used an IDE burner w/Solaris on an IDE-based sparc yet?  I havent
tried anything with my SunBlade yet.