On Wed, 20 May 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> > You don't need any special drivers for IDE cd-roms. If you have the cd
> > in the sound-cards ide-channel, it's propably more easy to move it to
> > either primary or secondary channel. Then just point the installation to
> > cd,
> > just like hard disk .. /dev/hdc for master on secondary and so on...
> >
> > --j
>
> Thanks for the tip. I ordered the CD a couple of weeks ago, but it has not
> arrived yet. I went ahead and downloaded the stuff from the FTP sites. I
> have
> noticed that the LED on the CD is on alot of the time. I'm not sure if this
> is a
> problem.
This is typical of many CD-ROM drives.
>
> Can I read non-linux CD's just to test its operation? If so, how would I go
> about verifying the CD operation?
Yes, most use the iso9660 file system. Assuming you connected to the
master channel of the secondary controller, try (as root):
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt
Then 'ls -al /mnt' should give you a directory listing of the CD, etc.
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