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Re: Help on CD-ROM



Rapahel Mrkgnao Tamar writes:
 > On Mon, 6 May 1996 23:42:11 +0200 (IST), 
 > sabag@telhai.ac.il  <sabag@telhai.ac.il> wrote:
 > 
 > >I can't make my CD_ROM works.
 > >Seems like the kernel doesn't recognize it.
 > >The cd-rom is an ide cd-rom by reveal.
 > >The manufacture is goldstar.
 > >The driver under M.S. DOS is GCD540.SYS.
 > 
 > Check to make sure that the jumpers on the cd-rom drive are set to 
 > master (NOT slave). An IDE cd-rom defined as slave on a controller 
 > of its own will work under DOS but refuses to work under Linux (at 
 > least with 1.2.13 and my IDECD). If this is the case, just move the 
 > jumper to the MASTER configuration (as per CD-ROM documentation).

It's not that it doesn't work - it's just that the kernel won't look
for it.  Use of the hdX=cdrom boot flag will force a probe for the
CD-ROM drive.

-- 
Dr. Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il


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