Need help with Sparc-1 (SUN)

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat May 15 21:29:36 2004

At 04:59 PM 5/15/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Joe,
>
>>>Recently acquired an old Sun SPARCstation-1.
>>>Can't get it to boot from CD.
>
>> A lot of the older SGIs and Suns required that the CD drive DEFAULT to
>>512 bytes/block or else they won't work. The newer systems issue a SCSI
>>command to the drive to set it to 512 bytes/block but the older ones didn't
>>issue the command and if the drive didn't default to that then you wouldn't
>>work. On some drives like the Toshiba 3401s you could change the jumpers
>>to control the number of bytes/block that it defaulted to. Just a quess
>>but I could be completely wrong.
>
>Thanks! That was exactly the problem.

  Cool! That was a lucky guess!

   Joe
Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 21:29:36 BST