Re: Sun CDU561 CD-ROM misadventures
AFAIK those drives don't handle CDR media well at all-
Mike Pfleger wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am running slink on a SPARCclassic, and had to do
> the installation using a SCSI CDROM drive temporarily
> mooched off of another machine. I would like to get
> the original CDROM drive working with this machine.
>
> I've read some things about CDU-8012 CD-ROM drives,
> and things that have to be set as the boot parameter.
> This machine came with a Sony CDU561 (aka Sun CD2000).
> As far as I know, the classic had no problems reading
> this drive under Solaris. The SCSI ID is set to 6.
> I get the same problems as somebody posted last year.
> As advised in the afformentioned thread; at the
>
> SILO boot:
>
> prompt, I tried entering:
>
> linux max_scsi_luns=1
>
> -to no effect. I still get a screen of SCSI errors.
> Sadly, the following does not capture the errors:
>
> mount /dev/cdrom >& spew
>
> Using vi to check the contents of spew reveals an
> empty file. So... let me ask for advice in the
> meantime. Anyone know of any peculiarities to do
> with this drive? I am obviously loathe to try
> reloading Solaris to test this.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> cheers,
> Mike Pfleger
>
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