Install CD RW on Sun Blade 100

[tropicalisland]

Hi,

I have a CD RW 5232. How can I install this drive on the Sun Blade 100 with Solaris 9? I replaced the drive that came with Sun Blade with this drive. How can I get the system to recognize this drive?

Thanks very much,

 

[bfitzmai]

Have you tried a reconfiguration boot.

at the ok> prompt: boot -r

or

In the root directory: touch reconfigure

init 6

 

[tropicalisland]

Hi

I did probe-ide
show-disks and it shows the drive present.
But when I boot cdrom, it says "can't read disk label"

Thanks

 

[tropicalisland]

It also shows "invalide interface number 3

 

[tropicalisland]

It shows "Invalide IDE interface number 3

 

[bfitzmai]

Are you sure your new CD-Rom Drive is compatable with Solaris. If I remember right the block size for Solaris CD's is 512.

 

[tropicalisland]

This drive was bought from SUN for Sun Blade 150. I am installing it on Sun Blade 100. I think it is compatible. How can you determine if the block size is 512?

 

[bfitzmai]

Could not find the CDRW you have on Sun's site. The one they called out for the SunBlade 150 is part # X6187A. Specification says this drive is a 48X drive. The one you specified is a 52X drive. This is not saying the spec on Sun's site is up to date. A few years ago, Plexor was the only company that put out CDRWs for UNIX workstations. There was a jumper that had to be installed to be compatable. Almost all equipment I have purchased through Sun came with a Installation and Users Guide that assisted in set-up. If you don't have this documentation, I would call for tech assist. Sorry I could not help further.