I want to thank Dr. Thomas Blinn and Iain Barker for their responses to my
questions - they helped give me information that lead to some
experimentation that solved my problem.
It appears the DS20E uses a standard IDE CD-ROM which can be replaced by a
standard IDE DVD-ROM drive. However, the mounting hardware and connector
in the DS20E is not that common. The connector on the back of the drive
is similar to what you might see on a laptop slimline drive.
The answer came when I compared the DS20E CD-ROM to the DVD-ROM drive from
an HP Proliant DL380 G3 server (an Intel based unit). While the two units
had different connectors and mounting hardware, it turns out if you strip
them both of these, the core drives have the same physical form factor.
So, what I did was got a Proliant DVD-ROM drive (HP part #264007-B21 - an
8x/24x DVD-ROM slimline drive), removed the back connection adapter (3
screws) and the mounting tracks (3 or so more screws). I did the same
thing with the DS20E's CD-ROM drive (one screw to remove the mounting
hardware is in a deep recess, so requires a long, fine point phillips
screwdriver) and swapped the mounting hardware between the two. The
DS20E's mounting hardware on the DVD-ROM drive allowed it to mount
natively in the CD-ROM bracket on the DS20E. The operating system (5.1B
PK3, in my case) saw the drive without a problem and allows data to be
read.
Tom
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Tom Ackenhusen tackenhu_at_fnal.gov
Business Systems Technical Services
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL, USA
----- Forwarded by Tom Ackenhusen/Fermilab/US on 12/16/2004 10:49 PM -----
tru64-unix-managers-owner_at_ornl.gov wrote on 12/02/2004 06:29:40 PM:
> Oracle has begun shipping some of its software (eBusiness Suite 11i v
> 11.5.10) exclusively on DVD-ROM - no more CD media. So I need to be
able
> to read DVD's for installs on a DS20E running Tru64 5.1B.
>
> Does anyone know
> 1) if there is a supported DVD-ROM drive for a DS20E? If so, what is
its
> part number or a reference for it (I can't find any such option on the
HP
> site)
> 2) if there is a DVD-ROM drive (supported or not) that will run on a
DS20E
> under Tru64 5.1B?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
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> Tom Ackenhusen
> Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL, USA
Received on Fri Dec 17 2004 - 05:00:46 NZDT