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Re: Setting up a CD ?
>
> Evgeny Stambulchik writes:
> > benyo@NetVision.net.il wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm a new-comer to the LinuX world !
> > >
> > > I am trying to install (I'v got a CD made by InfoMagic) and i can't seem to
> > > mount it.
> > > I have a Teac 55A (Quad Speed) CD connected to a 16-Bit SoundBlaster.
> >
> > If it's IDE drive - you have to wait 1-2 months; no quadspeed IDE drive is
> > supported currently, AFAIK.
All (!!!) ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drives, including double and quad speed ones are
supported by new (1.2.X) kernels. I have mitsumi-4x and it works just fine.
>
> I don't think this is correct. Someone asked me about Linux
> supporting this CD at the show. I believe it's a MCD compatible (i.e.
> it can plug into a soundblaster MultiCD card). After much poking
> around, (in CD Howto, kernel source code), it was discovered that
> although it has the same interface, it needs to be controlled
> differently. So someone was working on support for it, and the
> support was still alpha.
>
You are right. Teac 55a connects to the Sound Bluster MCD and have a Panasonic
*ELECTRIC*, but a *PROPRIETARY* programming interface. So it needs special
support for such drives in Linux. A group of enthusiasts works on it
(I think that Eberhand Moenkeberg is responsible for that - see
linux/drivers/block/README.* files in the new kernels)
>
> Dr. Harvey J. Stein
> Berger Financial Research
> hjstein@math.huji.ac.il
>
Boris Lavva (lavva@tx.technion.ac.il)
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~lavva