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As Doug White wrote:

> Also I strongly suggest using a Sun-supplied CDROM drive and not a
> 3rd party one. They do funky things to the firmware and 3rd party
> drives are not likely to work.

Funny, we never encountered problems with custom CD-ROM drives in
Sparcs, ever since the OBP didn't insist anymore on 512-byte blocksize
drives.

-- 
J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de        http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/