Sun SPARCstation LX boot from CDROM?

[Tom Hunter]

I have now installed an old Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra SCSI card with
micro-SCSI interface in a Windows XP PC. Windows successfully installed the
device driver and sees the Sony drive. If I attempt to read from the drive
I get a generic I/O error.
So it appears that the drives SCSI interface, positioning and eject
circuitry is working but there is maybe a problem in the optical circuitry
or the LASER optics.
Thanks for all the feedback.
Tom Hunter

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 9:58 AM r.stricklin via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
> On Aug 28, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote:
>
> > My collection is primarily sun4c and sun4m machines. I have been having
> problems with the CD drives that I have been acquiring (purchase or rescue)
> in the last year or so. 4-5 drives, none worked. It has all been drives in
> 411 cases or going into them, no failures with internal drives. Haven’t
> investigated why.
>
> 95% likelihood of faulty miniature electrolytics.
>
> ok
> bear.
>
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> until further notice
>
>