At 3:43 AM +0100 11/15/01, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
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>There's some CD light blinking and head moving right after the
>"boot" command and before the errors. The CD-ROM is a HP SureStore 6020,
>and it works fine on my i386 machine, the bus is terminated properly.

Details foggy, been a while since I had to deal with this, but 
there's something with the block size of the CD-ROM that's 
hardware-related. The fact that it works just fine on i386 is a good 
indicator that it *won't* work on SGI (or Sparc). I have a 2x (Maybe 
4x) Toshiba for my Indy that's hard-soldered to (2048?) bytes per 
block, & a Plextor 32x for my SparcStation 4 that has a switch on the 
back for "Normal" & "UNIX". AFAIK, most of the Plextors have switches 
or jumpers like that; mine is a PX-32TSe. They're pretty available on 
eBay.

HTH,
-Kit
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