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Re: ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM



On Sat Dec 16 Evgeny Stambulchik wrote for my question:
 >> danielv@msil.sps.mot.com (Daniel Vainer) wrote:
 >> >  Hi all!
 >> >  	I have "Optical Storage Dolphin 8001" ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM.
 >> >  	I have compiled new linux 1.2.8 kernel where I have include support
 >> >  for ISO9660 file system and IDE/CDROM's. Compilation completed successfully. 
 >> >  	When I boot the new kernel I have message about ATAPI/IDE cdrom on
 >> >  hdb with no warnings. After that kernel tryes to find CD and can't do this
 >> >  independently
 >> >  if there is CD in CD-ROM or not.
 >> 
 >> Kernel never does it. In slakware, it's /etc/rc.d/rc.cdrom's job. You can safely
 >> remove that script.
What I did was just to give to loadlin exect location of the drive like mcd=0x1f0,14 and after that it works just great even with safe kernel like 1.2.8
 >> 
 >> >  
 >> >   Manual mounting does not have success either - I have message like
 >> >  "incorrect fs, /dev/cdrom is busy or other error".
 >> 
 >> Do it like that: `mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdb /cdrom' . If you add line
 >> /dev/hdb   /cdrom    iso9660    noauto,ro  0   0 
 >> 
 >> to /etc/fstab, you'd mount it as simple as `mount /cdrom'
now it works ether.
 >> 
 >> Evgeny

Thanks anyway.
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