[aix thinkpad] Boot from CD-ROM

[Stefan Tibus]

Hello all,

I want to make an update to the story about CD-ROMs with support 
for booting an RS/6000. I have some drives I used for a long 
time already to install AIX and recently I tried some other models 
I had laying around.

- Plextor drives are said to work, myself I often used:
  PX-12TSi
  PX-20TSi
  with several older machines (7012-320H, 7011-250, 7006-41W, 7007-N40, 
  TP 7249-860).
- Drives I tested to work on a 7006-41W/-410:
  Toshiba XM-5701B
  Toshiba XM-6201B
  Sony CDU-561SC
- Some Toshiba drive (don't remember the model) did not work with the 
  320H at least.
- IBM itself sold Toshiba and Plextor drives like the Toshiba XM-3401BMA
  in the external case 7210-005 (and in the 7030-3BT ?) and Plextor in the 
  7043-140 (UltraPlex PX-32?)
- In general the problem was not to read CDs but boot. The main point was 
  for the drive to support a 512B/sector mode in order for the machine 
  to boot. (there were discussion on news:comp.unix.aix about this)

cu,
Stefan

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