cdrom not found by Linux

[Jacob Schmude]

	OK, we'll need to go find all the info we can about the drive. Is
it IDE or scsi? What IDE or scsi controller is it on?
	These may seem dumb questions, but sometimes knowing all the info
ahead will help. We may be able to narrow down the possibilities for root
devices if we know the specs of the drive. You may need to open the
computer to find out what IDE/SCSI controller it is on and, in the case of
IDE, if it is master or slave.
	Also, what is the kernel message exactly?


On Sat, 27 May 2000, Matthew Janusauskas wrote:

> Originaly the drive was not accessible to dos and I thought that was the
> problem so I went and got the drivers so DOS could get to the drive thinking
> that would help.  It made no diffference.  I can't seem to find anyone who
> knows how I can make this drive usable in linux.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 19:17
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: RE: cdrom not found by Linux
> 
> 
> 	I don't have one of these, so I'm guessing. Is it visible to
> dos? If so, don't let the dos driver load and try again. Those drivers can
> cripple the hardware until the next reboot, making it unusable by
> linux. So,  take the dos driver out of autoexec.bat (or whatever), then
> dos cannot see the drive. Then try and load linux.
> 
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, Matthew Janusauskas wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jacob,
> >
> > I have what perhaps is a related   problem.  I'm trying to run zipspak on
> my
> > Toshiba laptop and want to use a Sparq Syquest drive connected through my
> > parallel port.  Linux duesn't seem to see this drive as an available
> > partition at startup.  It only lists hda1.
> >
> > I'm having trouble finding anyone who knows much about this drive
> especially
> > using it with linux.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude
> > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 18:04
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: cdrom not found by Linux
> >
> >
> > 	Hi
> > 	You may want to try it when the cdrom is not visible to
> > dos. Sometimes the dos drivers can, since zipspeak is an OS running on top
> > of another, not let zipspeak find it. In short, don't load the dos cdrom
> > driver and see if that helps. I had to do this on my cd rom drive, and
> > sound card, when I used to run linux on top of dos this way.
> > 	Another thing to be concerned about is does linux support the scsi
> > controller you're using? Even if it does, does zipspeak support it? What
> > kind of scsi controller do you have and I'll see what module may need to
> > be loaded. Most likely, you won't need to compile a new kernel. I can't
> > list the scsi controllers linux supports, there is too many of them.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image.  I cannot get
> > > this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup
> > > script's "configure my cdrom" option.
> > >
> > > To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'.  The
> cdrom
> > > drive is visible to DOS.  Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel
> > > image with cdrom support?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -Dave
> > >
> > >
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