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I have been having difficulty getting my Linux box set up properly.  The 
(hopfully) last major thing to get working is my cdrom.  I have a Mitsumi
ATAPI drive, which works fine under DOS, but which Linux can't seem to handle,
at least on the secondary IDE port.

I have run the script in /usr/src/linux/drivers/block to make the
/dev/hdcx and /dev/hddx "files", made sure I compiled in the proper
iso9660 file system support and ide drivers, and read the README files
relating to ide and ide-cd support.  I get the message "DRDY error:
status = 0xff" when the boot process gets to the step of mounting the
cdrom.  I tried using the command line bit "hdc = cdrom", but that
made no difference, as was the case when I also added a command to
disable autoprobing /dev/hdc.

I then tried moving my cdrom to be a slave to my primary (bootable)
disk on the primary IDE port (I straped the cdrom as slave - in the
previous config, I had it as master and also tried it strapped as
"cable select").  Then I got the error "bad superblock or incorrect file system" at the point in the boot where the cdrom should have mounted.


Any suggestions anyone??

Thanks for your help,

Jack

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Dr John H. Bailey
bailey@seas.gwu.edu
jbailey@arinc.com