Sorry for the late summary. My original question was how to get non-Sun CDROM
drives to work with Suns. Thanks for all your suggestions. Unfortunately ether
they
didn't work or I wasunable to implement them.
The responses came under the following categories:
"Cut traces on the CD-ROM circuit board"
--Sorry, I'm only borrowing the CD-ROM. The owners wouldn't be too happy about
that.
--However, I could buy one of my own and do it. I was trying to avoid that,
though. (buying
--my own drive, that is. Cutting traces doesn't bother me )
"use adb to modify kernel"
--All the examples I saw were for Solaris 2.1(SunOS 5.1) or SunOS 4.x.x . I'm
running Solaris
2.3(SunOS 5.3),
"C programs to set the block size on the CD-ROM drive via SCSI commands"
--See above.
"Shut down volume management and mount the CD-ROM manually
--No go!!
"stop volume management, insert CD into drive, and restart volume management"
--Nope.
Of course nearly everyone pointed out the fact that Sun's CD-ROM driver only
supports a block size
of 512 bytes: a fact I didn't know. I also got some great info out of the CD-ROM
faq which some of
you were kind enough to send me.
Oh, the drive was a Toshiba XM3401.
Thanks to:
"Henry Katz" <lehman.com!hkatz>
"Kevin A. Noll" <csl-emh2.army.mil!knoll>
porsche.mce.com!gary (Gary Cook, Dir. Tech Services, MCE, Inc.)
Ian Chisholm <mail.glg.edinburgh.ac.uk!chis>
Nate Itkin <ptdcs2.intel.com!Nate-Itkin>
RCWUSR.BP.COM!REEDWV
Richard.Hellier <cppuk.co.uk!rlh>
Steve Elliott <comp.lancs.ac.uk!se>
artecon.com!Johnny.Hui (Johnny Hui)
crc.com!kan
hobbes.crc.com!rao (Randy Olsson AWC)
hydres.co.uk!robert
igd.fhg.de!boenning (Dirk Boenning)
neon.mitre.org!anderson (Mark S. Anderson)
porsche.mce.com!gary (Gary Cook, Dir. Tech Services, MCE, Inc.)
rave.com!dean (DEAN)
txc.com!mattias (Mattias Zhabinskiy 203-929-8810x251)
uniq.com.au!glenn (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
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