7 Jan
2008
7 Jan
'08
7:26 p.m.
Saturday, January 5, 2008, 6:25:29 PM, Jason wrote:
I got an internal cdrom recogzined last night. The
only Irix distro I
have now is 6.5. Will the Crimson at least load fx from that? It was
acting like it couldn't even find the file, though, giving some scsi
errors if I booted into the hdd's fx and tried 'ls dksc(....)" on the
CD. I tried an Apple CD600i and a Toshiba model which was listed in
the SGI cdrom survey. Of course, they could be bad drives, who knows.
Too many variables!
The drive should be configured to start with a default blocksize of
512 bytes. I'm not sure the Crimson sends the appropriate commands on
it's own during startup. Older SGIs don't, newer do. Drives that work
like a charm on SGI are the 32x or 40x UltraPlex drives by Plextor.
These do have a blocksize jumper and I've got them to work on most
hardware I own.
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Best regards,
Gerhard mailto:mail at g-lenerz.de
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