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IDE CDROM, anyone?




just got my new Matrox MGA/Millennium, an amazing accelarator.
am VERY happy to announce it is all working, and I am convinced I _DID_
get a better deal than the ATI :-)


now to my question...
I have a Toshiba XM-5302B CD drive on my IDE bus, which works great under 
both MessDOS and Warp (standard ATAPI), though I couldn't get it to work 
under Linux. it is not set for either master or slave but by 'Cable 
Select' like the vendor assured me it should always work (and it did in DOS).
since I use the Adaptec 2940, I had to use Slackware 2.3's 'ahacdrom' 
image, which didn't include support for my CD, so I copied it to the DOS 
partition, and all was fine, but I have since then compiled support for 
it, still I can't convince Linux it is there (tried /dev/hda-hdd, 
hd1a-hd1d, I only get "/dev/xxx is not a block device"


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