[SunRescue] Re: What cdroms work on 3/60 crate with rom 2.8.3?

[Gil Young]

Wow this site is cool for a sun3 resource, he even has it WAP enabled!:

http://www.sun3arc.org/index.wml

At 08:18 AM 5/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Everything you should need is on http://www.sun3arc.org/
>
>
> >I dug an old 3/60 crate out of the storage dustbin last night and was
> >trying to get up and running for some fun play.  It has the 2.8.3 rom
> >revision.  The thing has an external drive/tape shoebox with a sun 0669
> >drive and a 150mb 18 track (not 60mb 9 track) Sun rommed Archive tape
> >drive.  It would not read the tape drive or the late model cdrom drive
> >I was trying to get going on it.  I tried sd(0,18,1/2/3) for the cd
> >and st() for the tape, but it would not boot from either.  It would
> >access them.  The hard drive read fine, but, stoopid dunce here dumped
> >the original sunos into the bitbucket by reformatting the drive on a
> >VAX to clean it up.
> >
> >Question:  What tapes and cdroms will this particular revision of 2.8.3
> >           rom support on a Sun 3/60/C/G?
> >
> >I vaguely remember that there were some revisions that would support
> >the 150mb tape and some revisions that would support cdrom, but I am
> >not able to backtrack to that info.
> >
> >Any pointers thereto are muchly appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Bob
>
>
>
>Michael Thompson
>E-Mail: M_Thompson at IDS.net
>
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Gil Young
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