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Re: Creative Labs 4x CDROM

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From: Rod Cheshire
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:00
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Benjamin Lyall wrote:
> 
> Thorfinn residing at thorfinn@zip.com.au blessed us with:
> : In article <50402l$lkf@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, Ben wrote:
> : >Other earlier versions support the tertiary and quarternary ports as well.
> :
> : Yes, but they're 1.3.x kernels, and I don't recommend them for use,
> : since they're development kernels.  There's no point using a
> : development kernel once the next stable release is out.
> :
> : 1.2.13 (the previous latest stable kernel release) does not support
> : those devices.
> 
> 1.2.13 will support the third and fourth IDE ports if you tell them where the
> ports are.  ie. pass a lilo parameter on boot.
> 
> Ben.
> --
> Benjamin Lyall Computer Systems Engineering / Computer Science 2nd Year RMIT
> blyall@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au    or    http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~blyall
> Presently I'm Running Windows 95/Dos/Linux 2.0.14 on an 5x86/160/24/1800 :-)

-- 

I used the 1.2.30 kernel. Which I downloaded from one of the
Oz mirroe sites. It compiled without any major problems afte make config.
My CD is slaved to the first Hard disk and is mounted on /dev/hdb as /cdrom.
The kernel finds the cd on boot up if a CD is in the tray.


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From: Rod Cheshire <rodc@hq.adied.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Creative Labs 4x CDROM
Date: 1996/09/03
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