[rescue] IBM p44 DVD optical drive?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Monday 06 April 2009, r.stricklin wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:50:59PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >> Ray Arachelian wrote:
> >>> Hope this isn't too OT, but I've got an IBM p44-170 with a SCSI
> >>> CDROM
> >>> drive.  I'd like to upgrade it to a DVD-ROM and be able to boot
> >>> off install media with it.
> >>
> >> The real name of the machine is "44P-170" or "7044-170".  This is
> >> a machine which pre-dates the "pSeries" nomenclature.
> >
> > In Sridhar's case, the "p" stands for "picky". 8-)
>
> So, Pat's advice is misguided? (@;

The machines are less picky than the people that use them. :)

I noticed the typo, but figured it wasn't worth trolling about...

Pat
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