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>>>>> "JW" == Jason Wood <jasonw@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> writes:
In article <4n8es9$mma@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> jasonw@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jason Wood) writes:


JW> I had some problems with my CD-ROM.  Under win95 no problems, under
JW> Linux no CD-ROM.  The CD-ROM is running as a master from the second IDE
JW> channel.  What I found wasunder win95, the Master jumper had to be
JW> removed, but under Linux it had to be in.  A bit of a bitch, but I pull
JW> it out for win95 and stick it in for Linux.  You might want to try this
JW> trick.

I had similar problems a long time ago and discovered that when the
linux kernel boots and looks for IDE devices it seems to look for master
devices on each interface and if it doesn't find one then it stops
looking, so a slave only device on an IDE interface won't be found,
hence the need for the jumper.

You can fool it...

When you boot (assuming lilo), give the parameter hdd=cdrom (from memory
this should work I don't have this problem anymore)

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