Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 31 May 1996 19:00:00 -0500 (CDT) | From | ixx <> | Subject | Re: Hitachi IDE 4X CD-ROM cdr-7730 |
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On Fri, 31 May 1996 a.vignani@crf.it wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 1996 21:30:25 -0800 "C.H. Chang" <u3311113@tknet.tku.edu.tw> > wrote: > > >Because my original cd-rom driver "NEC 4X CD-ROM CDR-273"is breakdown, > >I want to buy a new CD-ROM driver. > >I am considering to buy "Hitachi IDE 4X cdr-7730"! > >Does anyone have a Hitachi 4X IE CD-ROM CDR-7730? > >Could it run well under LiNUX? > >Is anyone has this device,how about tell me its performance? > >Thanks in advance! > > > >Dept. of Civil Engineering > > Tamkang University > > TAIWAN > > CHANG CHIA-HAO > > > > What has this to do with linux-kernel?? > > Wait a minute before saying 'nothing'... > > I have one of these on my P5-100. Works great under Linux, BUT every > time I reboot to MS-DOS/W95 I can no more see it. I have to press > the reset button or power off the machine to make it usable again > under M$'s OSs.
I can boot into dos fine and "see" the cd-rom, with out a hard reboot.
> I tried to reset explicitly the IDE interface by adding a reset pulse > just before hard_reset_now, but it didn't work. > > It can be a M$ fault, but I suspect that the Linux kernel is in some way > involved here. > > Alberto > >
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