Very Computer

My system is:
Packard Bell Model: Legend 5200 Multi-media
Pentium-60, PCI bus.
CD-ROM: Panasonic/Matsushita CR-563-x

My CD-ROM is not auto-detected by the "sbpcd" boot disk.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  
Is there a patch that I need to obtain?
Any information would be helpful.

Thanks!

: My system is:
: Packard Bell Model: Legend 5200 Multi-media
: Pentium-60, PCI bus.
: CD-ROM:       Panasonic/Matsushita CR-563-x

: My CD-ROM is not auto-detected by the "sbpcd" boot disk.

You might want to insure that the drive is jumpered to be drive 0.  I
chased this through 5 patchlevels over 4 months before pulling the drive
and checking...  Darn drive worked great with DOS/Windoze when not
jumpered...  Also check base address for drive, usu. default to 230h I
think, but I thought I heard that pci might use usual sbpcd defaults???

good luck.

Sean Long

--

dmesg:
======
snd2 <SoundBlaster 2.1> at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
snd1 <Yamaha 2-OP FM> at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0
mcd=0x310,10: Mitsumi status, type and version : 18 D 2
.
.
.

mcd: read of block 16 failed, giving up
Mitsumi CD-ROM I/O error
dev 1700, sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0x1700 iso_blknum 16

/dev/sndstat:
=============

Config options: 31402

Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: SoundBlaster

Card config:
SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0

PCM devices:
0: SoundBlaster 2.1

Synth devices:
0: OPL-2

Midi devices:

MIDI Timers:
0: System Timer

0 mixer(s) installed

: My system is:
: Packard Bell Model: Legend 5200 Multi-media
: Pentium-60, PCI bus.
: CD-ROM:       Panasonic/Matsushita CR-563-x

: My CD-ROM is not auto-detected by the "sbpcd" boot disk.

So, do one of the following:

*  get aware of the address you are using for it (your CONFIG.SYS
   possibly can tell it to you, or the DOS driver) and enter it
   to the LILO: prompt like
      LILO boot: ramdisk sbpcd=0x310,LaserMate
   or
      LILO boot: ramdisk sbpcd=0x634,SoundBlaster
   with the correct values for address and interface type.

*  jumper your interface to one of the many probed addresses.

If your interface sits on one of those "modern" jumperless sound cards,
you should boot DOS before and switch over to Linux by CTL-ALT-DEL.

Cheers -e-
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: : My system is:
: : Packard Bell Model: Legend 5200 Multi-media
: : Pentium-60, PCI bus.
: : CD-ROM:     Panasonic/Matsushita CR-563-x

: : My CD-ROM is not auto-detected by the "sbpcd" boot disk.

: You might want to insure that the drive is jumpered to be drive 0.  I
: chased this through 5 patchlevels over 4 months before pulling the drive
: and checking...  Darn drive worked great with DOS/Windoze when not
: jumpered...  Also check base address for drive, usu. default to 230h I
: think, but I thought I heard that pci might use usual sbpcd defaults???

Default is 220.

: good luck.

--

Steven Constantine:

  i-DX2-66 : 8Mb Ram : 946Mb HD: Soundblaster 16 : Creative CD-ROM

    .....sporting a rather tasteful unix-thingie...'L' something....

: : : CD-ROM:   Panasonic/Matsushita CR-563-x

: : : My CD-ROM is not auto-detected by the "sbpcd" boot disk.

: : Also check base address for drive, usu. default to 230h I
: : think

: Default is 220.

1.) Numerical wrong.

2.) Default is what I am using. ;-)

Formerly, I had a SB Pro soundcard - so, "your" default was 0x230.
Since I switched over to a Mozart sound card (at about 1.1.7x), you
have to fight against 0x340.

As a compensation, you no longer have to finger with the damned ID jumpers
since 1.1.81 if you only have one drive. ;-)

Further, don't forget the "longest ever" auto-probing address list (but I
try to refuse to touch a possible present NE2000 ethernet card at 0x10 above
it's base address; so, try to avoid 0x290, 0x310, 0x330, 0x350, 0x370).

Cheers -e-
--
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Phone: +49 551 201551  Fax: +49 551 21119         G   G  W W W  D   D  G   G
Mail:                                              GGG   WW WW  DDDD    GGG
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Am Fassberg
D-37077 Goettingen           GERMANY

--

Stephen Parkinson