On 01/06/2016 23:29, Swift Griggs wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Josh Dersch wrote:
it can support multiple drives on a single board, pretend to be a
CD-ROM, etc, etc, etc. 4) It's considerably cheaper.
That's an excellent feature that I'm sure would come in handy, especially
if it can emulate a CDROM with a 2048 block size. That'd be super-helpful
on an SGI, and would probably make the mind-numbing 'inst' operations take
a little less time.
AAT. 2048 bytes is the common CDROM standard, used by PCs and their
ilk, whereas SGIs want 512-byte blocks on CDROMs. Some SGIs/IRIX
versions (eg Indy and later, running IRIX 5.3 or later) will issue a
command to make the CDROM switch to 512-byte blocks instead of their
default 2048. Most modern SCSI CDROMs honour that, but older ones may
have jumpers or PCB links that need to be set.
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Pete
Pete Turnbull
