On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:18:14AM +0100, Uwe Schindler wrote: > I have an Alphastation 500/500 with a QLA 1040, too. Disk was SCSI and > CD-ROM was a DEC one (SCSI). The original CD-ROM was not intact and did not > like burned CDs. I replaced it by a TEAC CD-R 56 CD burner, which worked > perfectly. On the other hand, another CD-burner (Plextor) was not working, > because SRM console said, that it was not possible to switch the drive to > some special DEC mode with another sector size (I cannot recognize it > anymore). But the TEAC CD-R 56 works until now.
A lot of plextor scsi drives have a jumper to enable 512byte mode. It is usually required by unix systems to use them for booting. Certainly my 12x plextor scsi drive has that jumper, although I have never got around to trying it on my SGI or DEC (I installed the SGI by netboot instead). > My Debian is now installed on a new and large Seagate SATA disc on a 5 $ > SATA PCI controller (SiI 3114) with standard partition table, the /boot > mountpoint is an old SCSI ZIP drive which replaces the floppy in the box, > partitioned in the standard BSD/Tru64 way from which SRM can boot. Yeah I am thinking of putting in a small scsi disk to boot from and a large IDE or SATA disk on my 433a as well. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
