[SPARCbook] Re: 3000XT PCMCIA cdrom problem

Tue Nov 20 13:44:37 CST 2001

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Ok, I appreciate all the help I got with this question but now have a =
new one related to the orignal reason I posted the previous message.  =
Instead of using the pcmcia Panasonic external cdrom w/ card, I bought a =
cable and tried to reinstall the OS again.  Since I still ran into =
problem I thought perhaps the cdrom is just bad and replaced it with a =
external sun 411 cdrom and set it to scsi id 6.  Now, I can "boot cdrom" =
and the Solaris installer starts up and goes to the point that it wants =
to format and setup partitions where it then can not find the ide hard =
drive and quits.  I tried with Linux Mandrake, RedHat, Suse and NetBSD =
and all these OS's end with the same problem of not recognizing any hard =
disks.  Does anyone have any ideas on this problem?  Can I boot the =
machine, drop to a prompt and then mount the cdrom and start the solaris =
installer that way?  I have tried to do it this way with both the =
panasonic cdrom and the 411 cdrom and can't seem to mount either, maybe =
it's in the syntax.  Can someone post a example to try?    Tadpole makes =
mention of this problem with single ide drives in thier Ultrabook line =
but don't mention how to get around it. =20

Jason King

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