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In article <4rcrms$98c@metro.usyd.edu.au>:
|ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Ken Yap) wrote:
|
|>In article <4ra1a0$gcc@metro.usyd.edu.au>:
|>
|>|What is a secondary interface? My CD drive is a Mitsumi one linked
|>|to a SB16. I have two hard drives linked to my Promise 2300plus
|>|IDE controller. In this case, is my CD drive on a secondary interface? 
|>|I don't remember seeing jumpers at the back of my CD drive, are they 
|>|really there? Most importantly, do I need to touch the settings of
|>|the CD drive in order to install Linux?
|
|>The secondary IDE interface is the one that's at IRQ15 and (forget the
|>address). The IDE/ATAPI interface on the Soundblaster or clone card is
|>usually at the secondary address. However from what you describe you
|>may have a (proprietary) Soundblaster interface CDROM , not an
|>IDE/ATAPI one. The cable is also 40 conductor so it looks like an IDE
|>interface but is not IDE.  And there wouldn't be jumpers on a
|>Soundblaster CDROM. Try booting with a kernel with sbpcd support.
|
|Thanks for your reply. Just curious, what makes you believe it's 
|a proprietary SB interface CDROM? Before getting the SB16 I was
|connecting the CD drive to an (IDE?) interface card for use with
|the CD drive only. Does it matter?

Because you said there were no jumpers on the drive. To disprove my
guess, look at the drive and see if it says IDE/ATAPI. Or if it's a 4x
or > drive, it's almost certainly an IDE/ATAPI drive; I think they
stopped using SBPCD interface after 2x. Alternatively see what model
the drive is. If it's something like CR562, it's a SBPCD drive.  (I
don't know all the models, sorry.) Also the original SB16 is a SBPCD
interface.

If you have manuals, that would be the place to look.