Re: HELP with Creative IDE CD Install

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From: Matt
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:00

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S�nia Bastos Afonso Louren�o Keene (lourenco@deakin.edu.au) wrote:
: I have the misfortune of having both a Matrox Milleniumm Video Card,
: and a CD ROM drive that Linux (and FreeBSD) will not recognise.
: 
: I have a standard dual speed Creative labs CD-ROM/Soundblaster setup.
: Although the CD is Creative, it is still an IDE CD.  I plug it into
: the second ide port on my Triton Motherboard. 
: 
: Has anybody installed Linux with this configuration?  How did you do
: it?  I would have thought that this CD would be really common.
: 
: Thanks
: 
: Scott Keene
: 
: (could you cc an email reply to me as well?)
: 
: lourenco@deakin.edu.au
: 

Really? My panasonic cd-rom is supposedly the same as the creative one,
and I definitely wasn't aware that i could plug it into the ide port. If I
can, send me the drivers (DOS) and I'll see if it works, then get the linux
configuration to work.

Matt

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Matt(hew) Jenkins. 2nd yr. Computer Science (RMIT Bundoora)
email: mdj@{arcadia|yallara}.cs.rmit.edu.au
Running DOS 6.2, Linux 1.2.8 on a 486/100/12/540
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Date: 1996/05/30
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