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RE: install ATAPI CD-ROM with Sound Blaster 16 PnP sound card
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: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO.html
. 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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