Well, the CDROM worked when I booted with a Solaris CD in it, so I assume the CDROM is good for SUN. And the SCSI chain is properly terminiated (since it works with the Solaris CD). But I'll try to see the 512-2048 block size.
thanks graziano On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 15:48:22 Erik Mouw wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:18:43PM -0800, graziano wrote: > > The cd-rom is on SCSI id 6. After I > > boot cdrom > > the linux kernel kicks in, but I think it is not recognizing the > CDROM > > or the HD. At least on x86 you get the lists of SCSI devices and I > > didn't see any lists in the boot. Then the kernel panics (of courss) > > because there is no root. > > Not all SCSI CDROM players work on a Sun. Suns want CDROM players that > can do 512 byte blocks instead of the usual 2048 byte blocks. My > Compaq > CDROM player (Toshiba OEM) has a jumper to select 512 or 2048 byte > blocks, it only works if I select 512 byte block mode. Of course Sun > CDROM players work perfectly well. > > > Erik > > -- > J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, > Department > of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and > Systems, > Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The > Netherlands > Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ > >
