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List:       sparc-redhat
Subject:    RE: Writing A CD
From:       "Tempel, Philippe" <TEMPELP () toysrus ! com>
Date:       1998-03-31 22:04:22
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> tbrown@zephyr.pd.uwa.edu.au said:
> > I've looked around and found a couple of web pages about Sun CD's.
> The
> > only thing I have found on them is that you need a 512k sector size
> > and that you should put the boot image as the first thing. (i.e. dd
> > if=/images/boot.img of=blah bs=512k count=2) 
> 
> This 512k sector size seems to be a serious problem, because most of 
> the CDROM drives use 1024 bytes, which is the required sector size 
> for PCs.
> This is why much drives do not work (for booting) with SUNs.
> 
	[PT]  I think you mean 2048 byte blocks for other
	CD-ROMs.  I remember reading this in the Sun
	CD-ROM FAQ.  Never tried it yet, but I wonder if
	a Sun CD-ROM (with 512 byte block mode
	enabled) would work on a PC SCSI card?  I'll have
	to try one night when I get home. ;-)

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