According to Steve <stek1961@NOSPAM.mac.com>:
> Can I ask where we are up to re: this?
>
> I'm actually on Sol 11, SB1000, and I'd like to do some dvd/cd writing.
> The only kit I have knocking about is a Formac firewire enc with a
> Pioneer 106 in it. I also have a NEC 1300(?) DVD writer I could leech too.
>
> I successfully attached a firewire external disk but it seems a bit
> clunky and indeed got 'cannot stat' messages and the volume
> disappearing......

Is there any reason for not getting a standard IDE DVD writer
and replacing the CD-ROM with it? I've done such with a Blade-100 and
an Ultra-5, so the SB-1000 should do it just as well. This was under
Solaris 10 that I did it. Both machines work fine for both reading and
burning CDs and DVDs -- using the software which comes with Solaris 10.

These IDE drives are dirt cheap, so why not, and avoid the
problems of trying to use firewire for the task?

> I'm a bit wary of attaching it tho, cos when I did that with the disk
> the blade rebooted.....
>
> I usually use a Mac G5 for my DVD writing, but I find it seems to suffer
> from a PC-like problems in that if it's been up a bit, with a restart, I
> get an illegal-sense or sth and a new coaster. I know it's going to do
> it too, by the responsiveness of the system! So I feel I have to reboot
> it before writing on it. Sunblade always feels responsive tho!

So -- just give the Sunblade its own internal drive. That *is*
an IDE machine like the Blade 100, is it not?

Good Luck,
DoN.
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