Re: Newbie question on cdrom

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From: David Gibson
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:00

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Bek Oberin (gossamer@glasswings.com.au) wrote:
: > [snip]

: If you've got a CD drive that uses the "SBPCD" driver (ie a Panasonic or
: SoundBlaster CD) compiled in as a module and you haven't set the type up
: properly, it'll take several minutes searching for the drive type when
: you try to mount the drive.  Shouldn't slow down accesses though...
: (If anybody has figured out how to pass parameters to a module to stop
: this happening, I'd love to know about it!)

	Unfortunately I beleive there's no way to change it with a module
parameter. Instead you have to edit it directly into the kernel source, in
the file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sbpcd.h. There are comments explaining
the necessary changes. I have to enter it here, because I have a #$%$#$
Funai drive which doesn't support drive select, and the kernel gets rather
confused when it tries to autodetect it.

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From: david@brucehall20.anu.edu.au (David Gibson)
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Date: 1996/09/30
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