In article <1ef88$43f66cea$48f4e632$30080@msgid.meganewsserve rs.com>,
DoN. Nichols <dnichols@d-and-d.com> wrote:
:According to peter <pm3e@juno.com>:
:> Doug McIntyre wrote:
:> >
:> > If its a Sparcstation 10, then yes you'd need a SCSI sun bootable
:> > CD-ROM, or another one to netboot off of. But even so, thats like a $1
:> > on eBay. Go for Pioneer or Plextor. Both of them typically had a
:> > jumper to select 512 byte block mode. I found a few Sun external ones
:> > for $5 on eBay. Searching for SCSI CD-ROM gave 477 hits?
:>
:> they are sparc stations...~1993 vintage, at least for the 10's
:> ebay has toshiba and hitachi but they appear to be internals...
:
: I'm going to go into quite a bit more detail, since you state
:that you are a newbie (though you spell it a bit differently.).
:
: You can connect an *internal* drive in the SS-10. The
:connectors are there. As to which drive will fit in the closed case,
:that appears to depend on the version of the SS-10 box. IIRC, some
:wanted a thinner drive and special mount hardware. But, you can run
:with the case lid off, and the drive just resting in place after
:connecting it. This should be sufficient for installing the OS, and
:then you can close up the system after removing the CD-ROM drive.
:
: The skinny drive which will fit in all systems is the Toshiba
:model XM-4101B, and for at least some systems, the mounting brackets are
:'L'-shaped angle pieces with a pair of holes on the bottom for screws to
:attach to the drive, and a pair of soft "wheels" whose axles are almost
:in line with the top edge of the drive. The numbers stamped on the
:examples which I have on a drive are "06-0070-B". The system *may* have
:a floppy drive mounted below where the CD-ROM drive mounts.
:
: My drive also has on its label "Ver. No. 203A" and
:"ROM Ver. EA40418", though others will probably work well enough.
:
: Or -- you can put one of the drives in an external case, with a
:50-pin SCSI connector and a terminator. The "sandwich box" case will
:use the high-density 50-pin connector like that on the back of the CPU
:box. Others, from other vendors, may have different connectors, so you
:will need an adaptor cable, and a different format of terminator.
:
did you cut a hole in the sparcstation 10 case to have access to the
cdrom? i have had over five sparc 10s, and NONE of them had a cdrom i
it. you are probably thinking of the sparc20.
for the sparc10 you need an external cdrom.
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