Does anyone know if it is possible to upgrade the CDROM drive of the Ultra10 to a DVDROM drive? If yes, will a standard off the shelf DVDROM drive do or do I have to get the DVDROM drive from Sun? I want to upgrade to a DVDROM drive because I want to install Solaris 10 on it which I have on DVDROM media.
I have just added a Pioneer DVR-104 drive to my Ultra 10. It's slow by PC standards (x2 DVD-R and x1 DVR-RW writer) but's it the only DVD writer on http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/Storage.html marked as "verified" for Sparc Solaris 10 that I could find for sale.
Seems to read data DVDs OK, plus passed the sunvts cd/dvd test.
Managed to write a data DVD OK, and then verify the MD5 of the DVD against the .iso file using Solaris 10 3/05:
bash-3.00$ cdrw -M
Device : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104
Firmware : Rev. 1.41 ( 03/04/21 P)
Media is blank
bash-3.00$ cdrw -C -S -i sol-10-u1-companion-ga.iso
Looking for CD devices...
Initializing device(Simulation mode)...done.
Preparing to write DVD
Writing track 1...done.
Finalizing (Can take several minutes)...done.
bash-3.00$ cdrw -i sol-10-u1-companion-ga.iso
Looking for CD devices...
Initializing device...done.
Formatting media...Could not format media
bash-3.00$ cdrw -C -i sol-10-u1-companion-ga.iso
Looking for CD devices...
Initializing device...done.
Preparing to write DVD
Writing track 1...done.
Finalizing (Can take several minutes)...done.
bash-3.00$ /export/home/su10/gmd5sum sol-10-u1-companion-ga.iso /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
d06d271269e277524ecf62aa5b43d2c9 sol-10-u1-companion-ga.iso
d06d271269e277524ecf62aa5b43d2c9 /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
(For some reason the first write attempt failed to "format", but the second attempt worked with the same media)
I will try more tests and see if it appears reliable...
