Ultra60 with Teac CD-R58S won't boot Solaris 8 from CD

Hi there,
for my Ulra60 (2x 360MHz) I tried to replace the original Toshiba XM-6201B
with the Teac CD-R58S drive.
With this drive, the machine won't boot from CD. SCSI-ID ist set to 6. Terminator is on the cable.
Booting from disk and copying a full 700MB-CD to disk ist working fine.
Both drives, the Toshiba and the Teac have no jumper to set the blocksize.
Anyone with some ideas here?
73
Peter

I seem to remember reading in some forum (or wherever) that there were some issues with the July 2001 disks in Sun's distribution of commercially shipped disks.
... something about ... they were "made wrong".
No corrupt files, but they had issues with being bootable.
As you experienced, it showed as a hardware compatibility problem.
Unless you <i>must</i> use them for some specific system, consider misplacing them.
The 2/02 distro would have much more value for general purpose usage.

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