Unusual CD-ROM problem from the Installfest

[bhorne at banet.net (Bill Horne)]

For those whom coulnd't attend the installfest yesterday, here's 
a shot at a "typical" installfest problem.

The machine is a 486 DX-2, with 24MB of Ram, one 400 MB HD and 
one 1GB HD.

It has a generic sound card, with a Sony CDU33A-01 CD-ROM 
plugged into the card.  This is a proprietary interface; Win95 
shows it as such, and it's usable with Win95.

We were unable to get it to work yesterday, and finally Jerry 
put SuSe on the machine via an NFS install.  Now, when I boot it 
into SuSe, it seems to recognize the CD-ROM, but I can't figure 
out how to mount it.

dmesg says:

ISP16: configuration cdrom interface, version 0.6
ISP16: cdrom interface (with OPTi 82C928 chip) detected.
ISP16: cdrom interface set up with io base 0x340, irq 0, dma 0, 
type Sanyo

I don't know why it says Sanyo (Not Sony).

I've tried specifying port and IQ at the LILO prompt, without 
any change:  every mount command gives a message saying the 
kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device.

All suggestions welcome:  the winner will get his/her name 
announced at the meeting on Wednesday, and a personal thank-you 
from the owner.

Bill Horne
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