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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 00:00

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Sunday August 04 1996 08:50, skeeve@heaven.myinternet.net wrote:

 > Its the Creative cdrom... they ship it default set to IDE3 interface.
 > move the switch on the back to the umm.. first one?! (try them) and it will
 > work.

 > linux can only see the first 2 ide interfaces

Garbage as usual Skeeve. Linux will see ide2 and ide3 if you tell it where they 
are on the kernel command line. The address and irq for these is not (yet?) 
standard, so there's no defaults or probing.

 > if its going thru the soundblaster itself.. you need to compile support in
 > for it.

You certainly do not need sound support for the SB just to use the IDE
interface on it.

hamish

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