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Re: Hardware question



* david howe <david@ptvproductions.com.au> [020830 03:25]:
> Yes u can use almost any standard scsi2 cdrom with the sparc. 
> 
> The boot prom can probe for scsi devices and will detect them, the linux
> kernel will load for sparc with scsi 

There's one thing though... it needs to do 512 byte blocks.  Most cd
drives will do 2kB blocks, and some have a jumper to set it to 512 or
2k... you just need to make sure it can do that.



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