Booting an older RS6000 off cdrom

From: Enrico Badella <enrico.badella_at_softstar.it>
Date: Wed Apr 25 02:53:32 2001

Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> 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.

This is even stranger! I used that CD player to install Solaris 8 x86
with an Adaptec controller. I'm too lazy to open the box were the Cd
player is is to get the model no. The box used to house another IBM
CD player, I have it here in front of me, it is a Toshiba XM-3101BME.
Doesn't work with the 320H for sure, but I think I used it to install
AIX 4.3.3 on a PowerPC 7011/250 and probably also an NT Server (yuck).
Seems like the CDs that come with Sun Ultra 5

e.

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