Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive
I put my (commercial) Imperium Galactica 2 CD into the drive and tried to "boot cdrom". Same result as before.
My drive is a Hitachi GD-7000 DVD-ROM. It should be okay. Should i try it in another machine?
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> írta:
>That's not a proof that this drive works. Try reading a known good medium, e.g. a commercially pressed CD and see if that works.
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>And, even if that works, it could still be that the old CD-ROM drive in your SPARC doesn't handle CD-Rs.
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>You really need to make sure the drive can deal with the CDs you've created. Testing them on a modern drive is moot. Modern drives are more tolerant with CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
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>Adrian
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>> On Apr 9, 2017, at 1:02 PM, transmail <transmail@freemail.hu> wrote:
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>> Both medium was OK on my x86 Linux box. I tried to run Debian 9 Sparc64 by "boot cdrom", but also no avail.
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>> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> írta:
>>>> On 04/08/2017 10:32 PM, transmail wrote:
>>>> I guess, i'm doing something wrong again, but i have no idea what.
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>>> Have you verified that the CD-ROM drive actually works properly,
>>> i.e. by testing a known good medium?
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>>> Adrian
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