DVD-ROM in Ultra 5

Hmm, is anybody watching DVDs on U5?

I have an U5/333 with PGX64. When watching DVDs the picture is not running smooth. Is this a problem of the (slow) CPU or will it be better to upgrade to a better frame buffer such as xvr-100?

Same problem with any DVD player (xine, ogle, mplayer,..)

alpezi at 2007-7-5 17:57:04 >

I am also thinking about putting a DVD-ROM drive in my Ultra 5, since it seems a lot easier with for example the Solaris 10 DVD.

Great that this seems to be supported. One small thing I was still wondering about though, will my Ultra 5 also be able to boot properly from a Solaris 10 installation DVD when I've installed the drive?

Also can I just use any plain IDE drive?

Z_God at 2007-7-5 17:57:04 >

Well.....not just any IDE DVD-ROM, I have a LITE-ON SOHD-16P9SV which

works fine in a SunBlade but goes nowhere in an Ultra 5 - the system boots

as far as "the system is coming up", gives a time-out warning and throws

a major wobbly spewing details of missing file systems. On returning to

the original CD-ROM, there is nothing logged.

How about a list (even one) of models known to work, and perferably

which are cheap and readily available (like the LITE-ON....)

Nigel

badnell at 2007-7-5 17:57:04 >

You may want to ask the fellow in this thread:

<a href="http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=msg&amp;th=6067& amp;start=0&amp;rid=1832&amp;SQ=cb9f99820599017a8f04276a88e818c6" target="_blank"> http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=msg&th= 6067&start=0&rid=1832&SQ=cb9f99820599017a8f04276 a88e818c6</a>

He apparently has a working DVD in a U5.

xwindow at 2007-7-5 17:57:04 >

Hello Nigel,

<i>I have a LITE-ON SOHD-16P9SV which works fine in a SunBlade but goes nowhere in an Ultra 5 - the system boots as far as "the system is coming up", gives a time-out warning and throws a major wobbly spewing details of missing file systems. On returning to the original CD-ROM, there is nothing logged.</i>

The CD-ROM or DVD drive are attached to the second channel (as Master), there should be no impact on the first channel with the harddisk. Was the DVD drive jumpered as Master ?

From my point of view almost any DVD drive works.

(While reviewing documention for the Blade 100/150 DVD drive from Lite-On, I was very surprised that there are notes that with a certain firmware revision Solaris 10 won't boot !!!)

We are talking about systems that can take "standard" drives from a PC. This doesn't apply to systems with SCSI or slim-line drives. I don't know if <b>SCSI</b> DVD drives are still available.

Incidently the first DVD drives from Sun required a firmware update to boot from the Solaris DVD (back then Solaris 8).

Unfortunately my DVD drives (installed in Sun workstations)are quite old and therefore only available as used parts. With a Pioneer SCSI DVD drive there was only a single issue due to mis-configuration (the blocksize jumper was in the wrong position). With IDE CD-ROM/DVD drives the only choices are Master, Slave or Cable-Select but no blocksize/parity/termination/term-power/SCSI-ID.

I wanted to offer that I try try my Samsung DVD drive (currently installed in a PC), but even this model (TS-H352) is no longer available ...

Michael

maal at 2007-7-5 17:57:04 >

If the DVD drive is in a Sun and is on the same network as the U5 you may be able to mount it as a network share.

This is what I use for a CD-ROM:

On machine with cdrom:

unshareall (if there are already shares)

(insert CD)

share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/cdrom0 (as root - this could be put in /etc/dfs/dfstab)

/etc/rc3.d/S15nfs.server start (as root)

(if you get an error about /etc/dfs/dfstab you may need to add the line above)

showmount -e (to check nfs is running)

On machine without cdrom:

mount <IP>:/cdrom/cdrom0 /mnt (as root)

e.g. mount 142.223.10.167:/cdrom/cdrom0 /mnt

Note: you need to umount and unshareall to remove the CD.

xwindow at 2007-7-5 17:57:04 >

Hello Nigel,

can you please verify that the DVD drive is correctly deteced.

<b>probe-ide</b>

This a sample from an Ultra 10.

<div class="pre"><pre>ok probe-ide

Device 0 ( Primary Master )

ATA Model: ST39140A

Device 1 ( Primary Slave )

ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y080L0

Device 2 ( Secondary Master )

Removable ATAPI Model: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 0122

Device 3 ( Secondary Slave )

Not Present

</pre></div>

Is the Solaris 10 DVD created from a downloaded image or from a Sun media kit ?

Regarding the HP GCC-4482B, this is a link to the <a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/docume nt.do?sitestyle=lenovo&amp;lndocid=MIGR-60697&amp;velxr-layout=printLeno vo" target="_blank"><b>Firmware update for HLDS GCC-4482B CD-RW/DVD combo drive</b></a>. Probably the drive is only re-branded and was manufactured by HLDS.

Michael

at 2007-7-21 14:29:17 >

I have 4 Ultra 5's running in my office with Solaris 8 02/04 and openboot 3.31 and I run an Emprex dual DVD burner and in another system I have a Samsung DVD burner and in another system I have a Philips dual dvd burner. I have loaded with both DVD and cdrom and with both Solaris 8 and 10. With the Samsung DVD I have loaded solaris 2.6. I have had no problems.I bought these over the counter at PCWorld, a local outlet here in the UK. The Samsung I bought in CA somewhere, but over the counter.

mdavies

mndaviesa at 2007-7-21 14:29:17 >