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I have just installed RH 5.0 from their CD ROM distribution on a P200
MMX.  Cool but for one thing!  Now that its installed, it doesn't
recognize my CD ROM drive (model CD-912E/ATK).  /dev/cdrom is a link to
/dev/hdc.  When I try to mount, I get:
   the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
       (maybe 'insmod' driver?)

The fstab entry looks like:
   /dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 noauto,ro  0  0

The only way I could get the CD ROM RH 5.0 installed was to boot a
Windows 95 Setup disk into DOS mode, go to E:\dosutils and AUTOBOOT.
Booting the Linux boot floppy that came with boxed Linux did not
recognize the CD ROM drive (that should have been my first clue of
trouble 8-(  I have two internal IDE hard drives, the first has Windows
95 on it and the second has the Linux partitions.   The CD ROM is IDE
also.

When I boot the the Windows 95 Setup disk, it identifies the CD ROM as:
   ATAPI CD ROM Device Driver v1.51 (1.28/96)
   (c) Mitsumi Electric Corp. 1994-1996
   1 drives detected
       unit 0, MASTER, IRQ 15, I/O addr 0x0170

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated as my Linux system is virtually
useless to me without a CD ROM drive.  So far radio silence from RH
support - but I'm registered and submitted my ticket.

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David R.

I'm having a similar problem here.... when I try to install RH5 from the
CDROM it doesn't allow me to choose the IDE CDROM as the manual suggests.
The only options i have are SCSI, and OTHER. The CDROM is an IDE ATAPI
compliant 2x from NEC manufactured in 1994. I figure it's old enough to be
supported... or is it too old??

The way I was proceeding was to boot with a Windows95 boot disk which does
nothing but gets me to the command prompt and loads the CDROM driver
NEC_IDE.SYS. I then switch to the CDROM drive and start AUTOBOOT.BAT .

I would greatly appreciate any help here.... otherwise I'll be forced to
copy everything to my HardDisk first.... which is very slow with a 2x ....
Thanks to anyone who can help me...

BM

Well, I thought I was crazy - I've got the same problem. I get an error
message saying "hdc: no response (status=0xd0)".
When I run AUTOBOOT.BAT, it sees the CDROM but then I get a bunch of other
errors that dont allow me to proceed with the installation. Also, like others
here, I don't get an IDE entry for CDROM type, only SCSI and Other.
I have a Dell XPS D300 PII with two hard drives, a Memorex ATAPI CDROM and a
Zip Disk internal drive. I have tried changing the jumpers on the CDROM and
the Zip disk but still nothing. I'm using RH 5.0.

Any ideas? Redhat are you reading this?

Fly

  Fly> Well, I thought I was crazy - I've got the same problem. I get
  Fly> an error message saying "hdc: no response (status=0xd0)".  When
  Fly> I run AUTOBOOT.BAT, it sees the CDROM but then I get a bunch of
  Fly> other errors that dont allow me to proceed with the
  Fly> installation. Also, like others here, I don't get an IDE entry
  Fly> for CDROM type, only SCSI and Other.  I have a Dell XPS D300
  Fly> PII with two hard drives, a Memorex ATAPI CDROM and a Zip Disk
  Fly> internal drive. I have tried changing the jumpers on the CDROM
  Fly> and the Zip disk but still nothing. I'm using RH 5.0.

For what configuration is the CD-ROM set now?

  Fly> Any ideas? Redhat are you reading this?

This *could* be an IRQ problem.

Quote:>For what configuration is the CD-ROM set now?

>  Fly> Any ideas? Redhat are you reading this?

>This *could* be an IRQ problem.

I'm gonna try putting the CDROM on the same side as one of the hard drives.
Right now the two hard drives are on one side of the controller (IDE0?).

Fly

Quote:>  Fly> Well, I thought I was crazy - I've got the same problem. I get
>  Fly> an error message saying "hdc: no response (status=0xd0)".  When
>  Fly> I run AUTOBOOT.BAT, it sees the CDROM but then I get a bunch of
>  Fly> other errors that dont allow me to proceed with the
>  Fly> installation. Also, like others here, I don't get an IDE entry
>  Fly> for CDROM type, only SCSI and Other.  I have a Dell XPS D300
>  Fly> PII with two hard drives, a Memorex ATAPI CDROM and a Zip Disk
>  Fly> internal drive. I have tried changing the jumpers on the CDROM
>  Fly> and the Zip disk but still nothing. I'm using RH 5.0.

>For what configuration is the CD-ROM set now?

To the original poster: do you have to go into windows to get th drive to
reset itself? if i boot from the disks, on subsequent boots to linux it wont
recognize the drive anymore at all. Strange things are a goin' on

Quote:

>  Fly> Any ideas? Redhat are you reading this?

>This *could* be an IRQ problem.

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  >> For what configuration is the CD-ROM set now?
  >>
  Fly> Any ideas? Redhat are you reading this?
  >>
  >> This *could* be an IRQ problem.
  >>

  Fly> Right now the CDROM is set for CSEL and I've tried master and
  Fly> slave. Since it works fine under Windows I have to rule out an
  Fly> IRQ prob. Also, the boot up sequence in RH says the primary and
  Fly> secondary IDE's are on IRQ 14 and 15. This is correct.

  Fly> I'm gonna try putting the CDROM on the same side as one of the
  Fly> hard drives.  Right now the two hard drives are on one side of
  Fly> the controller (IDE0?).

Good plan.  I'd suggest making the HDD the master and the CD-ROM the
slave.

By the way, please don't bother CC:ing me by email if you are not
going to provide a valid return address in that mail.

RH 5 installs fine with my ATAPI CD as master on 2nd controller (/dev/hdc)

Quote:> Could be your IDE CD is attached on the secondary controler bus?? When I
> met this I made it work attaching it as slave.. I think linux and other
> unix's can't find it if it is not in the same controler where you have a
> HD.

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Quote:> No sorry.. This is not correct...
> my cdrom is mount on the secondary controller bus, like slave without
> master (ok: hdd but without hdc).
> this is my 2c.

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