Sun CD-ROM problems

[Jim Hickstein]

OK, that was good.  Let's try another one. (Sorry for the traffic, but 
we've always said we wanted this list to be a place to go for answers, and 
today I have two problems.)

I have this Sun Ultra-10, missing a CD-ROM drive.  Guy gave it back to 
saying he could never get an OS loaded. (OK, maybe it's him.)  Stuff in one 
of the PC-type POS 50x EIDE drives, disk spins up and down and up and down 
and up and down and it boots, sort of, but takes forever.  Two or three 
drives did the same thing.

I've got my finger on a Sun part number drive on eBay.  32x this time. 
What are the chances this will fix anything?  Do I have a bad controller? 
A mechanically bad CD?  (Several do the same thing.)  Have I just thrown 
away fifty bucks on eBay?  (Again? :-)