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hamish@rising.com.au (Hamish Moffatt) writes:
>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.

My FX-400 also came strapped as a slave and plugged into the soundcard
secondardy IDE port. Linux needed hdd=cdrom to see it but when I strapped it
for Master Linux had no problem but the dumb DOS driver could not find it.
A newer version of the DOS driver fixed that. I have no idea what the ATAPI
CD-ROM setup mentioned above is.
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David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au