Subject: RE: Question/Help?
To: Christopher C. Tjon <cctjon@home.com>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/07/1998 21:37:24
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Christopher C. Tjon wrote:
> No, in fact, it is a Toshiba XM-3601B. I was not aware of the difference.
> Do you think a more modern prom would help or do I need to go out and find
> a Sun CDROM? Additionally, I can read the disk under Windows NT. That
> suggests that the drive will read the disk but without the right boot proms
> it doesn't matter?
I think you need a Sun CDROM, unless you can figure out how to kick
the Toshiba into 512-byte block mode. AFAIK there are no PROMs for sun4c
machines that let them boot from 2048 sector CDROMs.
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