Message-Id: <D5FED82EFF57D311AF7400805FBBF05501C5DCB2@oakmail1.oakridge.saic.com> From: "McClanahan, David K" <DAVID.K.MCCLANAHAN@saic.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 13:01:24 -0700 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] AppleCD 600e HELP.
When you said you never had a problem booting with the AppleCD 600e, have
you specifically tried it on a SPARC? I can't seem to get mine to boot up a
SPARC IPC with boot ROM version 1.6 as an external CD. The only jumpers I
can see are at the rear of the unit, next to the ID selection jumpers.
There is a parity and a terminator power jumper, both of which are shorted.
There is one other jumper pair and a single pin, with its' companion
removed, both are unlabeled. There are certainly none that are labeled for
changing the block size to 512, at least none that I can see anyway. I've
tried the one unlabeled jumper pair, that didn't work, and I've tried it
without.
The drive is a Matsushita-Kotobuki CR-504-B. I have been unable to find
jumper information for this drive on the net. Perhaps you have a resource
you could share?! Is there something else I can do to make this CD boot my
IPC? The IPC will boot up using a standard Sun/Toshiba XM-4101B drive with
the 512 block size set already, but I'd like to use this AppleCD so I don't
have to borrow a real Sun drive, very inconvenient!
I have gotten the infamous "bad magic number..." message when trying to boot
with this CD drive.
Ideas?
David McClanahan
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin-David Hammond [mailto:muaddib@bestweb.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 8:49 PM
To: CA
Cc: suse-sparc@suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] HELP>>>>>>.
Disclaimer: I have not yet installed SUSE on a sparc. The following
assumption
are based on RH 6.X and Mandrake installs on SUN and SUN/OEM UltraSparc
systems.
The CD-ROM must be sending the correct sized SCSI packets (aka "blocks")
(normaly 512 octets) for a Sparc to boot from it. This should be documented
next
to the DIP switches on the underside of the CDROM's chasis, or the
jumperpins on
the drives control board. I dont know which boot image you downloaded, but
the
boot.img on the cdrom should boot from floppy and then kick over to cdrom.
(scsi
id 6, normaly on sparcs). Packet size should not be an issue if you boot
from
floppy.
The Apple CD600e is very sparc friendly, and is avail for less than 50 USD
from
consignment stores like Computer Renaisance. i have never had a problem
booting
into any OS from one of these.
hope something here helps.
-
Robin-David Hammond
56 Hardwick RD
Ashland MASS, USA
"Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern
technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat."
On Sun, 6 May 2001, CA wrote:
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: [suse-sparc] HELP>>>>>>.
>
> First off, I'm new to Linux, but I know unix. I'm trying
> to load suse 7.1 on a sparc10 (after several tries with
> other flavors). I downloaded the first cd, burned it and
> did a boot cdrom, I get error messages stating bad
> magic,label..blah blah blah, so I downloaded the boot
> image, used rawrite to create a floppy,it loaded and
> now it's asking for a root disk ?? I thought the cd was
> the answer to my prayers ,so my question is what is the
> best way to load this ?
>
> Thanks
>
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