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- From: jeff@wsm.com (Jeff Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: OEM CD-ROM on RS/6000
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.181857.1772@wsm.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:18:57 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.072127.16566@epa.ericsson.se>
- Organization: Western Scientific
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- 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
-
- Malcom,
-
- You're banging you head against the wall. It took our lab 2 months
- to create a special IBM RS6K compatible firmware version for the OEM
- CD-ROM subsystems we sell into the RS6K/AIX environment. It wasn't easy
- by any means and it required making modifacations to the drive, not
- to AIX under SMIT as we would all really like.
-
- We tried making "Weird Incantations" over the ODM database using
- ODME but all we did is wrecked our system real good. IBM was really
- crafty (or twisted) when they devised the ODM database for applying
- device recognition and support to a dynamic kernel. Not only does
- it keep people's noses out of their laundry basket it also manages
- to five their Service organizations a boost of business from time to time.
-
- -Jeff Johnson
- DIr of Engineering
- Western Scientific
- Systems and Peripherals
- jeff@wsm.com
-
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