AFAIK those drives don't handle CDR media well at all- Mike Pfleger wrote:
> Hi. > > I am running slink on a SPARCclassic, and had to do > the installation using a SCSI CDROM drive temporarily > mooched off of another machine. I would like to get > the original CDROM drive working with this machine. > > I've read some things about CDU-8012 CD-ROM drives, > and things that have to be set as the boot parameter. > This machine came with a Sony CDU561 (aka Sun CD2000). > As far as I know, the classic had no problems reading > this drive under Solaris. The SCSI ID is set to 6. > I get the same problems as somebody posted last year. > As advised in the afformentioned thread; at the > > SILO boot: > > prompt, I tried entering: > > linux max_scsi_luns=1 > > -to no effect. I still get a screen of SCSI errors. > Sadly, the following does not capture the errors: > > mount /dev/cdrom >& spew > > Using vi to check the contents of spew reveals an > empty file. So... let me ask for advice in the > meantime. Anyone know of any peculiarities to do > with this drive? I am obviously loathe to try > reloading Solaris to test this. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > cheers, > Mike Pfleger > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tad Bilby Rave Computer Assoc. 800-966-7283
