From: Santos, Ramiro (Ramiro.Santos@commerzbankib.com)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 04:59:02 EDT
Hi, sorry for the delay,
one Sun guy told me the only relevant thing is that the drives
musst support data seg. in 512k mode.
Other answers were:
>> Sun uses Hitachi DCD drive.
>> I have used Hitachi GDM-7000 sucessfully
>> I have not heard of anyone trying that, and the Sun System
>> Handbook(which you can find links to from sunsolve.sun.com) does
>> showsthat no Ultra 10:s or 5:s are delivered with DVD. In other words,
>> it is not supported. But "Not supported" != "Doesn't work". (!= not
>> equal)
>>
>> The Sunblade 100 is(was?) delivered with 12x and 16x DVD from Pioneer
>> (Pioneer DVD-115 and DVD-1165M). I wouldn't be suprised if they worked
>> with Ultra 10:s too although I have no heard anyone trying. Maybe
>> booting from them can be a problem but since Solaris can use them un
>> Sunblade 100, it should be able to use it on Ultra 10:s unless there is
>> hardware limitation.
>>
>> But the only way to be sure is to try it.
>>
>> My guess is that either most DVD:s works or none at all.
>>
>> BTW, putting a DVD into a Ultra 10 will leave you with an unsupported
>> configuration even if it works, but I guess you are aware of that.
Many thanks to:
Krister Bergman
Hichael Morton
Heilke Rainer
Yours sincerely,
Ramiro Santos
ZIT P 7.41 Unix Server Implementation
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