Mitsumi x4 cdroms.

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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:00

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Thursday March 14 1996 21:23, bywateri@ee.cit.ac.nz wrote:

 > Reg Braddock (braddock@labrador.apana.org.au) wrote:
 > : I have a Pentium 90 with a Mitsumi CRMC FX-400 cd-rom drive and

 > I too had a problem - The problem was due to the fact that the people who
 > had sold me my computer had set the CDROM to be on the Secondary IDE
 > Channel as a slave with nothing on the master.  This causes Linux to not
 > be able to recognise the device when doing an ATAPI CD-Rom setup.

If this is true for the Mitsumi then there is some ATAPI incompatibility. I
have had both a Panasonic and a Sanyo IDE on the second controller as slave by 
itself, and linux had no problem recognising either given the kernel command 
line hdd=cdrom.


hamish

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