[SPARCbook] Re: 3000XT PCMCIA cdrom problem

[Martin Marshall]

Mat:

I had never tried booting from this CDROM because I had _assumed_ that
it used 2048 byte blocks, since it came with a Windows laptop.  I also
had never set it up on my 3GX.  I booted the 3GX from the CDROM using a
Sol2.6 install CD.  I broke out of the installation and shutdown. 
Today, I did a probe-scsi with the CDROM attached:

Matshitakme	CD-ROM02	1.13

I did a boot -r and got the following items in dmesg:

sd3 at esp0: target 3 lun 0
sd3 is
/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 4,8400000/esp at 4,8800000/sd at 3,0
	<IBM-DPRS-21215 cyl 9282 alt 2 hd 8 sec 32>
sd5 at esp0: target 6 lun 0
sd5 is
/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 4,8400000/esp at 4,8800000/sd at 6,0

Seems to work fine - vold mounts it automatically when a CD is put in.

I found a Sun 30" cable with AMP connectors - it's not too bulky.

Martin 

Mat Maessen wrote:
> 
> Hmmm.... my KXL-D740 seems to use 2048 byte blocks (or so
> /var/adm/messages seems to say). Though I've never tried booting from
> it. Perhaps there are different firmware versions or an internal jumper
> to set this?
> 
> Also, does anyone have a source for a short _flexible_ 50-pin SCSI
> cable? I'm using a Sun SCSI cable w/ my drive, and it's very bulky to use.
> 
> -Mat
>