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root@cleo.murdoch.edu.au (Daniel Prosser) wrote:

>Hi all,

>  I just got RedHat 3.0.3 (blah i needed it for cheap Metro-X ;)
>  I am trying to my CD-ROM drive detected at boot up here is
>  the info (as much info as possible follows ;):

>  Creative 8x CD-ROM connected to SB32 i/f which supposedly
>  (according to my DOS device driver) emulates primary slave

>  Unit 0, Slave, ATAPI, I/O address 0x01f0 the driver says

>  I tried forcing it with "linux hdb=cdrom" also hda for luck
>  and it detects the CD-ROM as:

>  hdb: CD820E.1v1078300, ATAPI, CD-ROM

The master IDE device of the first IDE bus should be /dev/hda. The
slave on this bus should be /dev/hdb. The master on a second IDE bus
should be /dev/hdc! Linux seems to have some trouble with slaved IDE
CD-ROM devices. Just try /dev/hdc for luck.

>  as the kernel boots up.  As my system boots up from reboot
>  it doesn't detect ANY ide devices (I have SCSI hdd) so I
>  guess the SB32 is doing something weird to make it look
>  like a CD-ROM is on the slave of primary controller but
>  Linux can't see what it's doing :) -- I've got no clue!

Is there IDE support and IDE CD-ROM support in your kernel besides the
AHA-2940 SCSI support?  YOu need both to get things working. I
wouldn't recommend these Soundcard devices as you seem to have SCSI
onboard which should perform much better.

Hugo.






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