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Thanks for all the help I've received. I appreciate the time and effort. All said and done, I found a post on DejaNews that referred to a RedHat errata, which described the way to get the CD-ROM to be recognized by the kernel. I then installed RH6.0 on the machine, and the CD-ROM now mounts OK. I didn't have time to get the CD-ROM recognized under SuSe - sorry, Jerry - but the user is now able to use her CD-ROM with Linux. Bill Horne On Sunday, March 12, 2000 9:00 PM, Derek Martin [SMTP:derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net] wrote: > Today, Bill Horne gleaned this insight: > > > 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. > > So it will have a device name which is associated with that > proprietary > interface. I'm not familiar with those devices so I can't tell > you what > it might be. I suggest reading the kernel configuration help > files for > the non-scsi, non-atapi CD drives (i.e. from the 'make > xconfig' command). > That may give you some insight. > > > 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'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. > > O.k. The kernel is recognizing the drive, so it isn't a > question of > supplying correct kernel options. The driver appears to be > loaded. > Also, /dev/cdrom is just a symlink, probably to nothing useful > if the > install didn't recognize your CD drive (most likely /dev/hdc or > /dev/hdd). > You need to figure out what the correct device file is for this > CD. CDs > that are connected this way are typically SB or Mitsumi drives, > but there > are several others it could be. Again, I suggest reading the > help from > the various kernel config options and trying to match up what > you have > with info in there. > > On another note, ISP16 seems to suggest something about the > driver... I'd > see if you don't see something in the kernel help about that. > > Good luck! > > > -- > PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/ > ~derek/pubkey.txt > ------------------------------------------------------ > Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux Geek > derekm at mediaone.net | derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net > ------------------------------------------------------ > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is > ignored). - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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