On Jul 19, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> IIRC, Plextor (and maybe some others) had a switch to select 512 or >> 2048 as the default transfer size, precisely so that they could be >> used as boot devices with systems that supported only 512.
Come to think of it, I do remember that switch, yes. Do you happen to know whether this limitation was part of the Sun hardware, or of SunOS? CMU had a lot of Sun3 machines and NeXT clusters, so I ended up mixing NeXT CD-ROM and the Canon? magneto-optical drives with Sun H/W, and vice versa. SunOS wasn't the only O/S which was run on a m68k Sun box. ;-) > I don't think Plextor was around back then; they used to be called TEXEL > back in the early 90s. The only Sun SCSI CD drives I saw were external > and caddy-based, so I mentally correlate them with NEC. Back then I > wasn't looking at brands as much as I do today, though. I'm pretty sure some folks had NEC caddy drives as well. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
