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From: joerg@bdc.ubc.ca (Joerg Messer)
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Subject: Third Party CDROMs on Suns
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Date: 12 Sep 90 17:59:46 GMT
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Has anyone tried to attach a third party CDROM to a Sun workstation? We've
attempted to connect our NEC CDR-77 to a Sparc 1 without much success.
The Sun seems to see the drive on the SCSI bus, but isn't able to boot of
the disk (SunOS 4.1).  Any ideas?

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