>At 12:10 PM -0400 2001/10/11, Linc Fessenden wrote:
>
>>  External SCSI cdrom drive?
>
>	Nope.  Don't have one.  IIUC, to connect an external SCSI 
>CD-ROM drive to a SPARC and expect it to be able to boot, it has to 
>be a pretty special drive anyway -- it has to support small sectors, 
>or somesuch.
>

Yes, that is true. Here is a some references that include some models 
that worked for me on Sun boxen... I figure you could probably find 
people that are willing to send off their old units for such nominal 
prices approaching zero that the shipping cost would be the larger 
cost.

<http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq/suncds.html>
<http://www.aball.de/~wpv/sun/faq/cdrom.html>