Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:59:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steve Huston <> | Subject | Amazing what a little RTFM can do :> |
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On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote: > > OK, this is probebly my problem right here: > > Canon Innova P100 (AMI), 16MB ram, PCI, 2 on-board IDE controllers, IDE > > CD-ROM and 1.2GB Drive. > > Now, what happens is that the kernel detects that the CD drive is there > > (I believe), and tries to read it. It's plugged into the second IDE > > controller slot, so I assumed it would be /dev/hdc, but it reports that > > /dev/hdc is not a block device. If I try /dev/hdb, then I get (Roughly > the /dev entries are wrong, master on the second ide is hdc (that's what > I have here), run the script in /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/MAKEDEV.ide > (chmod +x on it first).
Did this to no avail, but . . .
> > one. It is normally under COM4 under Win 95 when I boot that, however > > /dev/cua3 does nothing. My old Practical Peripherals on COM1 works fine, > Hmm, well it's either a DSP, and propritry (sp?), or a combined sound > card and modem, and you should be able to get it to work. Although the > hardware may need a magic incantation to inialise it. You may find that > first booting dos (windows95), and then useing loadlin may allow you to > use it (after letting the windows driver initalise it).
I did this, and the modem worked. So I got curious, and started poking around /usr/src/linux/drivers/block, read through README.ide, and found the line about adding 'hdd=cdrom'. Tried it and, whaddya know, I DO have a CD-ROM in my computer :)
At first I had used hdc=cdrom, but I saw that it found nothing there, but did find it on hdd (For some reason, the drive came from the showroom as a slave, but since it worked I left it alone). I still get some error messages on bootup however: ... hda: WDC AC31200F, 1222MB w/64KB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63, MaxMult=16 hdd: FX001DE, ATAPI, CDROM drive ide1: secondary interface on irq 15 ide0: primary interface on irq 14 ... hdc:hdc: bad access: block=0, count=2 end_request: I/O error, dev 1600, sector 0 unable to read partition table VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Max size:309790 Log zone size:2048 First datazone:68 Root inode number 139264 ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A iBCS: socksys registered on character major 30
I imagine the error is because there is a hdd, but no hdc. Either way, my CDs mount, so I aon't gonna worry about it.
Thanks all. I posted this to the kernel list in case someone else has a similar problem.
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