Booting an older RS6000 off cdrom

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 15:42:34 2001

On Apr 24, 21:49, Enrico Badella wrote:

> I tried all the cd players I had Matshita, Pioneer, Sony (ex Sun)
> and even IBM. All on SCSI ID 6 512 bytes/sector none ever worked
> except the Toshiba I pulled out of a RS6000 7013/59H. With this I
> installed 4.2.1 then maye a mksysb tape.
>
> I could never explain why the 320H is so picky about CDs

Ah, I've got one of those ex-RS/6000 Toshibas. I have the opposite problem
-- it won't work on anything except an RS6000! It has custom firmware.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
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