CD-RW/DVD-R on Ultra 10's?

[ocicat02]

As I understand the folklore, the Ultra 5's & 10's were Sun's first foray
into the PCI & IDE world, & the implementations had their issues.

I recently replaced the CD drive on an Ultra 10 with a Plextor CD-RW/DVD-R
drive, & reading data on CD-R discs created elsewhere has consistently been
fine.  However, now I'm wanting to burn CD-R discs on the Ultra 10 itself.
My first experiment didn't work with the software being unable to write the
ISO to the disc.

So, the culprit is either the software or hardware.  Have others had any
problems with putting more modern optical devices on  equipment of similiar
age?

Thanks!
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[William Enestvedt]

We tried this some years ago in an Ultra 10.

We got a SCSI card and a SCSI CD- and DVD-burner (Pioneer 104, I think)
plus a hard drive to act as a cache (since the IDE drive, which was also
running the OS, wouldn't keep up). The stock CD-ROM drive came out and I
mounted the extra HD inside.

   I think the guy I cobbled this together for was using it to burn
backups of log data or something. I never used it for that myself.

- Will
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[Nemo-18]

2009/10/29 James Hartley <jjhartley@...>:
> As I understand the folklore, the Ultra 5's & 10's were Sun's first foray
> into the PCI & IDE world, & the implementations had their issues.
>
> I recently replaced the CD drive on an Ultra 10 with a Plextor CD-RW/DVD-R
> drive, & reading data on CD-R discs created elsewhere has consistently been
> fine.  However, now I'm wanting to burn CD-R discs on the Ultra 10 itself.
> My first experiment didn't work with the software being unable to write the
> ISO to the disc.

I replaced the CD drive with a Pioneer DVR-107D and have no problem burning
CDs (both images and files) using XCDRoast.  (However, I have never been able
to burn a DVD because XCDRoast complains of a missing file and I have been
to lazy to investigate further.)
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[Sheldon T. Hall-2]

James Hartley wrote ...

> I recently replaced the CD drive on an Ultra 10 with a
> Plextor CD-RW/DVD-R drive, & reading data on CD-R discs
> created elsewhere has consistently been fine.  However, now
> I'm wanting to burn CD-R discs on the Ultra 10 itself.
> My first experiment didn't work with the software being
> unable to write the ISO to the disc.
>
> So, the culprit is either the software or hardware.  Have
> others had any problems with putting more modern optical
> devices on  equipment of similiar age?

I used all sorts of SCSI CD/DVD drives on my Sun and SGI gear, largely
without dificulty.  Not every machine would boot from every drive, and my
experiments with a Nakamichi CD-changer were a failure, but, generally all
went OK.  My experience with Plextors is universally positive.

What software are you trying to use?  cdrecord (and progeny) has extensive
tools and doco for troubleshooting, probably because it dates from an era
when CD-anything was a lot less standardized than it is now.

On the other hand, if you're using IDE, I know nothing.

-Shel


-Shel
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[ocicat02]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Sheldon T. Hall <shel@...> wrote:

> What software are you trying to use?  cdrecord (and progeny) has extensive
> tools and doco for troubleshooting, probably because it dates from an era
> when CD-anything was a lot less standardized than it is now.
>
> On the other hand, if you're using IDE, I know nothing.
>

Thanks, everyone for your comments.  This Plextor is an IDE CD-RW/DVD-R
drive for which I was attempting to use cdrecord.  I'll continue tinkering
with it.

Thanks, again!
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