I have had this problem too. Seems that there is a message
in the RH6.0 installation book, appendix F, that states that
not all versions of Toshiba XM4101s will work for the installation
process (this is one of the internal SS5/SS20 cdrom drives).
Likewise, I have had failures with trying to use a Sony CDU-8012
unit on my SS2. HOWEVER, I believe that the Toshiba 3301b worked
with no problem with my ss2 installation.
SunOS and Solaris have drivers written to handle these
drives. Apparently there may not have been much work in
creating unique drivers for Toshiba and Sony that will work
with the sparc version of linux. Looking at the source
files for the cdrom drivers, there are unique drivers for
a few drives. It could be that unique drivers are needed
to be written for Sun cdrom drives.
Question is: can looking at solaris source code somehow help
in coding new cdrom drivers for linux without causing any
type of issues with Sun?
-bob
"Daniel E. Jackson" wrote:
>
> "Brian E.W. Wood" wrote:
> >
> > On 05-Oct-99 Daniel E. Jackson wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Don't know but I can relate my own experience.
> > >>
> > >> I have two "Sun Bootable" CDROM drives that boot and install Solaris just
> > >> fine,
> > >> but neither will work for a Linux install. The only drive I have which will
> > >> install Linux is an old Pinnacle CD-R drive, and at that it sometimes takes
> > >> several tries due to file errors.
> > >>
> > >> Interestingly the CD-R drive will *not* install Solaris.
> > >
> > > A lot of PC cdroms and CD-R drives are built with 1024 blocksize, Sun
> > > bootable (if memory serves) CD's need to be 512. I have seen this
> > > problem over and over. On older machines, particularly IPC and below
> > > (but this may affect LX also, can't remember) you can't use the more
> > > modern Sun external CD's at all to boot from. For older machines, if
> > > you have the hardware/disk space, you may want to do an FTP or NFS
> > > installation. I was not able to get SparcLinux CD to boot from the
> > > internal CD on a sparc-20, so I got the updated kernel image disks and
> > > made boot floppies and it all worked just fine. Same-same on sparc1+,
> > > which unfortunately succumbed to a lightning strike after that!
> >
> > I know about the block size issue, but as I said these drives install Solaris
> > quite well and they are in fact "Sun Bootable".
> >
> > I have a 32-X "Sun Bootable" that works with a Classic (Sun-4M arch) just fine.
> > Are you saying it won't boot with an older machine like an SS-2 (Sun-4c)?
>
> Don't know, I tried the stock Sun External CD (wide single ended, I
> believe 12x) on a sparc5, sparc1+, sparc10, and LX. Worked on 10, not
> the others. Not sure why, memory has timed out.
> >
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