HP 9000/840 UPDATE

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu Jun 17 20:46:44 1999

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:

> I don't see why not. I was looking at a 9000 today, and it had
> what looked like a standard Toshiba XM-3401B SCSI CD-ROM installed.

I believe the only issue is that HP/UX requires a CD-ROM device which uses
512-byte blocks, not the standard 2048-byte block size of a standard
CD-ROM.

The reason I believe this to be an HP/UX issue and not a boot ROM issue is
that I was able to use a Toshiba CD-ROM drive with a 2048-byte block size
to boot my 9000/715 boxes and install NEXTSTEP that way. As I understand
it this would not have worked to install HP/UX (I have no HP/UX media to
try with).

ok
r.
Received on Thu Jun 17 1999 - 20:46:44 BST