Re: Sun newbie: Is my CD rom bootable?

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From: Gary Fenstermacher
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:00

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Craig Dewick wrote in message <74bco6$2ja$1@lios.apana.org.au>...
>No no no... 8-) To be sun-bootable, it has to support 512-byte blocks, not
>2048-byte ones. The XM-4101 does support the 512-byte blocksize.


Oops, at least I had the right size, if backwards :)

OK, I wasn't sure what the issue was with the XM-4101BME. I've checked the
Sun CD FAQ and found the B listed, but it then said that some of the other
versions of this were not built for the sector, depending on who they were
OEM'd to.

I also wasn't sure if I'd be cutting leads or not, since I didn't see any
wires, persay.

>There should be no need to do anything with the CD-ROM drive apart from
>making sure parity is enabled, and that it's set to the correct SCSI ID (#
6
>for a boot CD-ROM drive).


Cool. Now, its a matter of getting the new drive in, and I guess I'm on my
way.

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From: "Gary Fenstermacher" <gfen@DELETE.rcn.com>
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Date: 1998/12/12
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