1 Apr
2000
1 Apr
'00
8:01 a.m.
On Apr 1, 13:09, Chris Kennedy wrote:
Technoid(a)cheta.net wrote:
Early Suns need the drive to be set for 512-byte blocks; later Sun boot
PROMs can issue the appropriate mode-select command if they detect the
drive is set to 2048-byte blocks.
XM3301 and XM3401 have two pairs of pads on the PCB near the jumper block;
these are normally both closed (bridged by a thin track) on drives sold for
the PC market, but both open for Suns. The pads are small semicircles,
labelled 0 and 1.
There's a very similar set of pads on an XM3601, but they don't change the
blocksize, at least not with standard Toshiba firmware. I don't know about
a 3701, as I don't have one.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
I ran accross a reference in the newsgroups that
indicates the Toshiba
3701b cdrom drive can be run on a sun box with the change of a single
jumper but what jumper.
I've no ideal; all of my "Sun" CDROM drives are Toshiba but other than
a factory test jumper and the ID jumpers there's nothing to suggest that
they have hardware-selected block sizes.