Maybe offtopic.
I remember, that there were serious issues with Sun Enterprise E250 and DVD.
1) Images larger than 2 Gb were not supported by firmware/OBP.
2) Images larger than 3.4 or 4 Gb were not supported by Hitachi DVD.
3) Not sure about DVD-RW support.
4) Swapping another DVD unit did not solve problem, because of OBP.
Anyway, booting anything recent Solaris was not possible, so only netboot.
I spent considerable amount of time to install Solaris 10.
Gasha
On 04/09/2017 07:56 PM, transmail wrote:
You were right, DVD+RW is not supported by this drive.
However CD-RW is and still, i cannot boot up neither FreeBSD 11, nor Debian 9.
Any idea why?
(Hitachi GD-7000 docs are here: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bph06479)
Kevin Stabel <[email protected]> írta:
If you don't mind the cost of one disc, you could.If you do mind the cost, you
could try to look up what your drive supports.On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:11 PM, transmail
[email protected]> wrote:Yes, it is. It's a DVD+RW. And both the FreeBSD
and Debian CD-s i tried to boot up were CD-RW. Should i try CD-R and DVD-R?
Kevin Stabel [email protected]> írta:
This is a burned DVD yeah?It could actually be a fairly obscure issue, namely DVD-R vs
DVD+RPlease have a look here: https://pc.net/helpcenter/answers/different_dvd_r_formatsOn
Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:51 PM, transmail [email protected]> wrote:I&#39;ve
tried to set auto-boot? to false but it&#39;s still ejecting my Solaris DVD. What
can cause this?
Mark Morgan Lloyd [email protected]> írta:
On 09/04/17 12:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
That&#39;s not a proof that this drive works. Try reading a known good
medium, e.g. a commercially pressed CD and see if that works.
And, even if that works, it could still be that the old CD-ROM drive in your SPARC
doesn&#39;t handle CD-Rs.
You really need to make sure the drive can deal with the CDs you&#39;ve
created. Testing them on a modern drive is moot. Modern drives are more tolerant
with CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
I think that system had a comparatively-recent IDE-connected DVD, but
mine&#39;s somewhere waiting to be scrapped and I&#39;m afraid
I&#39;m not going
digging for it.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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