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I'm in the same boat.  Thanks for tha advice, Preston.

I have an Osborne P75 (sorry) system with an IDE 2x (Sorry again) that hops 
off the Vibra 16 Audio card.

I can't see my CD drive in Linux either.  I was told, just now, by an Osborne 
help-desk operator, that I can move the cable to the secondary IDE port on 
the mother board.  He felt that I would have to enable this port in the BIOS 
(accessable at start-up).  He didn't mention however, changing the CD from 
slave to master but I'd be interested in what you find.

So far I have coped with copying stuff from the CD-Rom onto my (Win 95) 
hard-drive partition and then accessing it from Linux.  I agree, it is a bit 
of hassle but I'm not far enough into Linux to worry about it.

Regards, David Marriott
Security Analyst

And now, if I can borrow Preston's disclaimer for a moment.....
NOTE:  Just because I say something doesn't mean that my
       employers agree with it or condone it.  If you want
       to believe this isn't so, then that's your fault,
       not mine or Macquarie Bank's.


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In article <4i2mld$2us@nc.itntl.bhp.com.au>, guise.preston.pm@bhp.com.au 
says...
>
>I've got a creative 6-speed CD-ROM with a plug 'n' play card.
>The way I got Linux to recognise it was as follows.  It may be
>pertinent to what you need:
>
>Change the jumper setting on the CD-ROM to master rather than 
>its usual slave setting.  Plug the CD-ROM data cable into the 
>Pentium's secondary IDE data cable slot (being a pentium, you 
>should have a secondary slot on the motherboard directly 
>beneath the primary one...)
>
>Linux should recognise this no problems now as an IDE/Atapi 
>drive.  HOWEVER, Win95 will continually play around with the 
>settings in your dos configs and autoexec's, changing the irq's 
>and so on back to what _it_ thinks is best.  you'll have to 
>write your own batch file to call to give yourself access to 
>the cd-rom under DOS, even though Win95 will keep picking it up 
>in its new location.  Don't bother about editing the 
>configs/autoexec's to reflect the real settings, because Win95 
>will change the files back, no matter what (...and what I'd 
>like to do to Win95 is unprintable...)
>
>Good luck.
>-- 
>Preston Guise