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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 8-Sep-92 Vice versa: NeXT
CD-ROM on Sun Mark Conway@equity.enet. (568)

>I just saw a previous article confirming that the Sun CD-ROM works on a NeXT.
>Has anyone tried a NeXT CD-ROM on a Sun?  I first changed the SCSI number from
>the factory setting of 4 to 6.  That got the Sun to recognize the CD-ROM drive
>at reboot time.  Then I tried to mount the CD-ROM with the following command:
>
>mount -r /dev/sr0 /cdrom
>
>This caused repeated overflow messages, and the drive never mounted.  Is there
>a mount option such as rsize that I need to use because of different buffer
>sizes? Thanks for the help.

Something like "Data buffer overrun", followed by a "SCSI bus reset--
target <blah> now syncronous at 4.0 M/s"?

You may be SOL...I've know several devices that work fine on the NeXT
but fail to work on Suns (specifically, SPARCstation II's and IPX's). 
One example was a Wangtek 6200 DAT tape drive that failed completely,
another was a Fujitsu 2266SA (1.1 Gig 5.25" HD) that had to be
reformatted on my NeXT for 512 byte sectors, rather than 1K, before the
Sun would touch it.

Sun boxes seem to have problems with devices that can't accept 512 byte
sectoring.  The NeXT is much more intelligent about such things.

It might be helpful for you to describe what Sun machine you're using,
and to possibly include a transcript of the SCSI bus errors.

-Chuck

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