On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:10:45AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:26:47PM +0000, Ryan Underwood wrote: > > > I'll assume then, that this script could be used with the IRIX > > cdwrite utilities to create 512-byte/block SGI bootable CDs. What hardware > > is required to do this? I'm supposing your standard PC/Mac SCSI external > > burner wouldn't cut it. > > It does - at least for DECstations I have created bootable CDs on a > standard ATAPI CD-witer. It looks like the logical blocksize does not > matter to the writer. The resulting CD is only bootable on a CDROM > drive in 512-bytes-mode of course. That should be the only problem for the decstation - You NEED a drive which is capable of fullfilling 512 byte read requests which todays drives might not. Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Nine nineth on september the 9th Welcome to the new billenium
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