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Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive



If you don't mind the cost of one disc, you could.
If you do mind the cost, you could try to look up what your drive supports.

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:11 PM, transmail <transmail@freemail.hu> wrote:
Yes, it is. It's a DVD+RW. And both the FreeBSD and Debian CD-s i tried to boot up were CD-RW. Should i try CD-R and DVD-R?

Kevin Stabel <kevin.stabel@gmail.com> írta:
>This is a burned DVD yeah?It could actually be a fairly obscure issue, namely DVD-R vs DVD+RPlease have a look here: https://pc.net/helpcenter/answers/different_dvd_r_formatsOn Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:51 PM, transmail transmail@freemail.hu> wrote:I&#39;ve tried to set auto-boot? to false but it&#39;s still ejecting my Solaris DVD. What can cause this?
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>Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.debian-sparc@telemetry.co.uk> írta:
>>On 09/04/17 12:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> That&#39;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&#39;t handle CD-Rs.
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>>> You really need to make sure the drive can deal with the CDs you&#39;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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>>I think that system had a comparatively-recent IDE-connected DVD, but
>>mine&#39;s somewhere waiting to be scrapped and I&#39;m afraid I&#39;m not going
>>digging for it.
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>>--
>>Mark Morgan Lloyd
>>markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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>>[Opinions above are the author&#39;s, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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