[OpenIndiana-discuss] A poor SPARC user's introduction

[Reginald Beardsley]

--- On Thu, 2/7/13, Michael Spacefalcon <msokolov at ivan.Harhan.ORG> wrote:

> From: Michael Spacefalcon <msokolov at ivan.Harhan.ORG>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A poor SPARC user's introduction
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 4:29 PM
> Robar Philip <philip.robar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > A cursory net search found several SCSI DVD drives for
> $35 to $70 (external=
> 
> Yeah, after my initial query post I have looked on ebay and
> found a
> bunch of listings for internal ones (my preference) in about
> the same
> price range, or a little less.
> 
> This is the route I'm going to take - ought to be much
> easier than
> having a total Solaris noob like me try to figure out how to
> set up a
> functional netinstall server on a foreign OS.
> 
> Thanks everyone for the responses!
> 
> SF

In SPARCstation 1+ days, you needed a CD-ROM drive that did 512 byte sectors.  Did they fix that in the transition to DVD?  It was a huge hassle as there were only certain model drives that could be jumpered to 512 byte sectors.

Have Fun!
Reg