R3K SGI Indigo & installing IRIX 5.3 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Jul 2004

On Jul 5, 11:38, Jules Richardson wrote:
...

 Blah! OK, the Indigo doesn't like my old Apple SCSI CDROM drive, even
 though the Indy and my Sun Ultra 1 do... luckily I had a spare
 quad-speed drive which has a sector-size jumper on the back. (So it
 wasn't a bad SCSI cable or a problem with the Indigo's external SCSI
 connector as it turns out) 
Probably the drive responds correctly to the command to set the
blocksize.  The Indy and later machines, and most not-too-old Suns can
do that from the boot PROM, but an Indigo can't (nor can my
Sparcstation 1).

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