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- From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
- Subject: Re: OEM CD-ROM on RS/6000
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:53:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.205300.20492@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <1993Jan25.072127.16566@epa.ericsson.se>
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- In article <1993Jan25.072127.16566@epa.ericsson.se> epamjh@epa.ericsson.se (Malcolm Hill) writes:
- >I suspect I am banging my head against a brick wall, but...
- >
- >Does anyone know if it is possible to use non-IBM CD-ROM players with a RS6K
- >(in particular a 320 with AIX 3.2.3)?
- >
- >The official response from IBM is that they have only supplied entries in ODM
- >for the IBM player (ie. no 'oscdrom'), and they didn't know of anyone that had
- >accomplished it.
- >
- >I have an unused SUN CD-ROM (the innards are a SONY mechanism), and I am sick
- >of NFS mounting the INFO CD from an unreliable SUN machine.
- >
- >All Responses gratefully received...
- >
- >Malcolm Hill
- >
- >Mail to : epamjh@epa.ericsson.se
-
- I've not tried this, so take it with a few grains of salt...
-
- It's my understanding that the IBM CD-ROM drives are Toshiba 3301s. You
- could probably use one of those, as the driver is probably looking for the
- "TOSHIBA" string from the drive. Who makes Sun's drive?
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- Jeff Markel
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