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Re: install ATAPI CD-ROM with Sound Blaster 16 PnP sound card
The following is taken from:
The Linux Kernel HOWTO
Brian Ward, bri@blah.math.tu-graz.ac.at
v0.75, 1 August 1996
Mabey it will help.
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7.8. I can't get my IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive to work
Strangely enough, lots of people cannot get their ATAPI drives
working, probably because there are a number of things that can go
wrong.
If your CD-ROM drive is the only device on a particular IDE interface,
it must be jumpered as ``master'' or ``single.'' Supposedly, this is
the most common error.
Creative Labs (for one) has put IDE interfaces on their sound cards
now. However, this leads to the interesting problem that while some
people only have one interface to being with, many have two IDE
interfaces built-in to their motherboards (at IRQ15, usually), so a
common practice is to make the soundblaster interface a third IDE port
(IRQ11, or so I'm told).
This causes problems with linux in that versions 1.2.x don't support a
third IDE interface (there is support in starting somewhere in the
1.3.x series but that's development, remember, and it doesn't auto-
probe). To get around this, you have a few choices.
If you have a second IDE port already, chances are that you are not
using it or it doesn't already have two devices on it. Take the ATAPI
drive off the sound card and put it on the second interface. You can
then disable the sound card's interface, which saves an IRQ anyway.
If you don't have a second interface, jumper the sound card's
interface (not the sound card's sound part) as IRQ15, the second
interface. It should work.
If for some reason it absolutely has to be on a so-called ``third''
interface, or there are other problems, get a 1.3.x kernel (1.3.57 has
it, for example), and read over drivers/block/README.ide. There is
much more information here.
"
Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> You wrote:
> Hello !
> I'm Eliezer from israel and i write to you in hope to get an answer
> to my problem ,and is related (i think) to idecd driver.
> I have an YGGDRASIL 2CD ,PnP linux (Fall 1995) that work smoot
> when is instoll with my CREATIVE CDR-7730 ATAPI-CDROM as a
> "slave" on first IDE controler, but now i have 2 HD
> ( one 800Mb and second 2.1Gb-CAVIAR ) and CDROM
> conected to my Sound-Blaster 16-PnPsound card ( on IDE interface
> CT-2940), and my install disk can't find now my CD-ROM.
> Allso when i try to boot with an "append" line hdc=cdrom,i get the
> answer :
> IDE1 no response status ( 0xff )
> IDE1 = ATAPI CD-ROM?
> My CD-ROM adress is 0 x 168,10 and in Dos work with MSCDEX.
> I allso tried booting dos + soft reset + booting with Linux install disk
> but no change. ( I can't change this adress becouse is an PnP card )
> I am all redy tried for more than 2 mounths to install this CD in an
> endles variations ( new kernel , spbcd, mscdex ) and i am realy
> desperate !!! Have you some sugestion ?
>
> thank you in advance
> Averbuch Eliezer, israel
>
> Well, you can't expect linux to look for IDE controllers on the sound card, can you? In DOS the Sound Blaster CD-ROM driver (loaded in the CONFIG.SYS) is designed to search it and that way MSCDEX (loaded in the AUTOEXEC.BAT) can find it and use it. The question is how linux can find. I suggest you to read the CD-ROM HOWTO available at:
> . It says something about mounting Creative Labs CD-ROM drives attached to the sound card by using the sbpcd kernel driver. (it means you'll have to recompline the kernel).
>
> Good luck!
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