On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, smorrill wrote: > I have a base Debian system installed from floppies on my 586 133mhz. > My hd is partitioned for Windoze95 and for Debian. I ran fips, am using > a boot mgr, everything going fairly well until I get to the point of > trying to get my cdrom running under linux. > > Please help, 'cause I'm rippin' my hair out here! > > I've got a "quad speed" "creative labs" cdrom with a soundblaster 16 > sound card. It works fine with winblows... I bought my Debian CD from > CheapBytes with all the goodies on it, and there it sits, patiently > waiting... > > I've read the howto's that I think apply, I couldn't find anything in > the dejanews archives, and I even bought my Linux in a Nutshell book. > > I've tried the ATAPI/IDE driver, nothing. I have no SCSI devices in my > system. I bought this system in 1995..were creative labs cdroms still > proprietary, or interfaced thru the sound card?
If the cdrom does not have a proprietary interface, then it should be an IDE device. You may need to specify the line hdc=cdrom on the boot line to get it recognized, e.g. 'boot: linux hdc=cdrom'. If it is proprietary, the only driver that might work, AFAIK, is the spbcd driver which you can probably choose to load as a module when you configure the kernel modules from the drivers disk. Good Luck. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept.
