Folks - Here's my summary (a bit late). Thanks to all that replied. Debbie My original post (responses embedded): > We're writing a proposal to go from OS/2 to Solaris and I have > some questions about Solaris 8 and CD-RW drives, and some > other stuff too: > > o I've heard that cdrecord is standard in Solaris 8. Is that true? > If so, can someone send me the man page (I heard there's a list > of supported CD write drives on the man page). Apparently cdrecord is part of the SunFreeWare collection, but is an old version (1.6). A newer version can be downloaded from http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html. However cdrw (package SUNWcdrw) is available. > o Can an external HP CD write drive be used on a Solaris 8 system? > Our Sun rep doesn't know (and it's not a very PC question :-). Basically any SCSI drive should work. Folks have reported problems with EIDE drives, but we'll be going SCSI. > o Can an external CD write drive be bootable for a Solaris 8 system? > We'll probably need to be making our own JumpStart boot CDs to be > installed on Netra's in a remote location. Since we need CD write > capability, we'd need to have external CD drives and want to use > them as boot drives as well. Will this work? The drives need to be able to be configured for 512-byte sectors and configured as scsi id 6, but most recently manufactured drives should work. See http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq/backgrnd.html. > o What is the disk drive vendor for the Netra T1 disks? Have they > been reliable? The best answer was from Christophe Dupre: || Sun get their hard disks from Seagate, IBM and Fujitsu. Disks from || these manufacturers selected by Sun have the same general specs in term || of capacity and performance. The disks are burned in by Sun before || shipping to customers and may have a custom firmware. They are all very || reliable, in my experience. Relavent links (from David Foster): > Joerg Schilling's cdrecord > > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdre > cord.html > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecor > d.html > webCDwriter : Web-based Java client for network multi-user cd-writes > http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~jhaeger/webCDwriter/ > > SCG and FBK drivers (necessary for CDRecord on Solaris) > ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/scg/ > > Joerg Schilling's other links: > > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/ > > Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ > http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq > Sun CDROM FAQ > http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq/ More relavant links (from Dennis Martens): > http://bloch.anu.edu.au/cdwriter.html > http://cvs.gimp.org/lxr/source/sane/README.solaris > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schillin.../cdrecord-1.9.htm -- +== Debbie Tropiano == Mommy to Nathan 8/17/95 & ^Sara^ 10/25/00-11/7/00 ==+ | God shows His opposition to cancer and birth defects, not by | | eliminating them or making them happen only to bad people (He | | can't do that), but by summoning forth friends and neighbors to | | ease the burden and to fill the emptiness. -- Harold S. Kushner | +== debbie_at_icus.com ============= URL http://www.icus.com/personal.html ==+ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Oct 8 12:21:40 2001
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