[SunRescue] Re: What cdroms work on 3/60 crate with rom 2.8.3?

[Michael Thompson]

Everything you should need is on http://www.sun3arc.org/


>I dug an old 3/60 crate out of the storage dustbin last night and was
>trying to get up and running for some fun play.  It has the 2.8.3 rom
>revision.  The thing has an external drive/tape shoebox with a sun 0669
>drive and a 150mb 18 track (not 60mb 9 track) Sun rommed Archive tape
>drive.  It would not read the tape drive or the late model cdrom drive
>I was trying to get going on it.  I tried sd(0,18,1/2/3) for the cd
>and st() for the tape, but it would not boot from either.  It would
>access them.  The hard drive read fine, but, stoopid dunce here dumped
>the original sunos into the bitbucket by reformatting the drive on a
>VAX to clean it up.
>
>Question:  What tapes and cdroms will this particular revision of 2.8.3
>           rom support on a Sun 3/60/C/G?
>
>I vaguely remember that there were some revisions that would support
>the 150mb tape and some revisions that would support cdrom, but I am
>not able to backtrack to that info.
>
>Any pointers thereto are muchly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob



Michael Thompson
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