Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive
Yes, it is. It's a DVD+RW. And both the FreeBSD and Debian CD-s i tried to boot up were CD-RW. Should i try CD-R and DVD-R?
Kevin Stabel <kevin.stabel@gmail.com> írta:
>This is a burned DVD yeah?It could actually be a fairly obscure issue, namely DVD-R vs DVD+RPlease have a look here: https://pc.net/helpcenter/answers/different_dvd_r_formatsOn Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:51 PM, transmail transmail@freemail.hu> wrote:I've tried to set auto-boot? to false but it's still ejecting my Solaris DVD. What can cause this?
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>Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.debian-sparc@telemetry.co.uk> írta:
>>On 09/04/17 12:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> That's not a proof that this drive works. Try reading a known good medium, e.g. a commercially pressed CD and see if that works.
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>>> And, even if that works, it could still be that the old CD-ROM drive in your SPARC doesn't handle CD-Rs.
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>>> You really need to make sure the drive can deal with the CDs you've created. Testing them on a modern drive is moot. Modern drives are more tolerant with CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
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>>I think that system had a comparatively-recent IDE-connected DVD, but
>>mine's somewhere waiting to be scrapped and I'm afraid I'm not going
>>digging for it.
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>>Mark Morgan Lloyd
>>markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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