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by **Lyon Gilbe** » Wed, 27 Dec 1995 04:00:00

I'm trying to install Linux using the Slackware 2.3 distribution. I
can't get it to recognize my Mitsumi CD-Rom which is connected to a SB
16. I've tried several Bootdisks, including:
bare, scsi, mitsumi and sbpcd
Anyone have any suggestions? Please e-mail me at

by **Bory** » Thu, 28 Dec 1995 04:00:00

> I'm trying to install Linux using the Slackware 2.3 distribution. I
> can't get it to recognize my Mitsumi CD-Rom which is connected to a SB
> 16. I've tried several Bootdisks, including:
> bare, scsi, mitsumi and sbpcd

Check the address. It's defaulted to 300, and at least on my system, it's
320. so when you boot add the option mcd=320,11(or something like that...
read the bootprompt howto for all the options for lilo). of course, those
values will change, depending on where your hardware is at..
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by **Joshua Gilbe** » Thu, 28 Dec 1995 04:00:00

>> I'm trying to install Linux using the Slackware 2.3 distribution. I
>> can't get it to recognize my Mitsumi CD-Rom which is connected to a SB
>> 16. I've tried several Bootdisks, including:
>> bare, scsi, mitsumi and sbpcd
> Check the address. It's defaulted to 300, and at least on my system, it's
> 320. so when you boot add the option mcd=320,11(or something like that...
> read the bootprompt howto for all the options for lilo). of course, those
> values will change, depending on where your hardware is at..

Thanks... I'll try this sometime today.. It's only 7:06, so I'll get back
to you.. Damn, that book I bought that comes with Slackware really
sucks... luckily, once I get this thing installed, I won't have problems
as I'm familiar with Unixes.

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by **Donald Li** » Mon, 01 Jan 1996 04:00:00

try idecd disk...your Mitsumi may be an IDE CDRom....Rgds, Don

by **Bobbo the Atari** » Thu, 04 Jan 1996 04:00:00

: > I'm trying to install Linux using the Slackware 2.3 distribution. I
: > can't get it to recognize my Mitsumi CD-Rom which is connected to a SB
: > 16. I've tried several Bootdisks, including:
: > bare, scsi, mitsumi and sbpcd
: Check the address. It's defaulted to 300, and at least on my system, it's
: 320. so when you boot add the option mcd=320,11(or something like that...
: read the bootprompt howto for all the options for lilo). of course, those
: values will change, depending on where your hardware is at..
: --
: /********Trannie Carter********

: ******"Real men use vi!"******/

And once you have everything installed, if you don't use LILO (like
myself) then one way to have CD-ROM mounted is to recompile the
kernel... I hacked the mcd.c file to set the interrupt on 10 and
the I/O on 230. There's probably another way to do it, but this
works for me. (+:

-Bob.
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by **Bolle** » Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:00:00

>: > I'm trying to install Linux using the Slackware 2.3 distribution. I
>: > can't get it to recognize my Mitsumi CD-Rom which is connected to a SB
>: > 16. I've tried several Bootdisks, including:
>: > bare, scsi, mitsumi and sbpcd
>: Check the address. It's defaulted to 300, and at least on my system, it's
>: 320. so when you boot add the option mcd=320,11(or something like that...
>: read the bootprompt howto for all the options for lilo). of course, those
>: values will change, depending on where your hardware is at..
>And once you have everything installed, if you don't use LILO (like
>myself) then one way to have CD-ROM mounted is to recompile the
>kernel... I hacked the mcd.c file to set the interrupt on 10 and
>the I/O on 230. There's probably another way to do it, but this
>works for me. (+:

I had the same problem. Solved it through disconnecting the MIT FX001D
from the SB16 controller and using Mitsumi's proprietary CD-ROM
controller card. Maybe I should have tried address and IRQ settings
..

Cya,

Bolleke

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