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Help on CD-ROM



sabag@telhai.ac.il writes:
 > Hello everyone.
 > 
 > 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.

I've seen some machines with 2 ide controllers, 1 hd and 1 cdrom.
They came with the hard disk configured as master on the 1st ide
controller and the cdrom as *slave* on the 2nd controller.  Linux
didn't recognize the cdrom presumably because since it didn't see any
master on the 2nd controller, it didn't bother to look for a slave.

In any case, the solution was to use the boot flag "hdd=cdrom".  If
this isn't your situation, you might try the above with hdd replace
with hda for 1st controller 1st drive, hdb for 1st controller 2nd
drive, hdc for 2nd controller 1st drive or ...

Good luck,

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


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