17 Jun
1999
17 Jun
'99
4:46 p.m.
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:
I don't see why not. I was looking at a 9000
today, and it had
what looked like a standard Toshiba XM-3401B SCSI CD-ROM installed.
I believe the only issue is that HP/UX requires a CD-ROM device which uses
512-byte blocks, not the standard 2048-byte block size of a standard
CD-ROM.
The reason I believe this to be an HP/UX issue and not a boot ROM issue is
that I was able to use a Toshiba CD-ROM drive with a 2048-byte block size
to boot my 9000/715 boxes and install NEXTSTEP that way. As I understand
it this would not have worked to install HP/UX (I have no HP/UX media to
try with).
ok
r.