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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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