[101534] in RedHat Linux List
RE: CD Rom on IDE port of soundcard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans von Lengerke)
Fri Nov 27 04:21:05 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:19:06 +0000
From: Hans von Lengerke <hans@peritas.com>
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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Davidson John wrote:
> What messages appear during boot? Does your system see the drive then?
The BIOS used to detect the CD-Rom drive up to the point where I disabled
PnP in the BIOS. I disabled this because I had problems getting my
internal modem (PnP modem obviously) to work.
I got an email in response to my post which suggested:
> Try:
>
> mount /dev/sbpcd /place.you.want.to.mount.it
>
> Sometimes, /dev/cdrom is linked to /dev/hdc, regardless of where the
> cdrom actually lives.
>
> ps-You'll need sbpcd support in your kernal. You probably have
> it if you managed to install at all. If not, look for an option
> that says "optional cdroms", then soundblaster something.
I'm going to try this tonight.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans von Lengerke [mailto:hans@peritas.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 November 1998 9:55
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: CD Rom on IDE port of soundcard
>
> On my machine at home I have installed RedHat 5.1 from CD. The
> installation went fine although I have the CD drive on the IDE port of
> the
> soundcard. The soundcard is a Yamaha OPL Whatever.
>
> Since the installation I have not been able to access the CD Rom drive.
> My
> /etc/fstab is set up correctly but when trying to mount the drive the
> shell just sits there. I get no prompt back and can't even Ctrl-C the
> mount process. Usually I end up killing the rxvt session and be
> frustrated.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this happens? Could it be that disabling
> PnP
> in the system's BIOS (Award BIOS - I had to disable this to get my modem
> to work) has anything to do with this?
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Hans von Lengerke
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