Sun CD-ROM problems

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:09:34PM -0800, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> 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? :-)

ex-coworker of me used a Dell cdrom from a PC (some 40x drive or so).
Attached it to an x1 to load software. worked without a problem. So
my guess would be, possible back controller.

But ... the sun has two channels, have you tried the cdrom on the first
channel together with the disk ?

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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