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Made myself a boot disk off the RH6.0 CD-1.
Boots up fine.
Keyboard, Language, Yadda, Yadda. A-OK
Now try to install RH6.0.

Cannot get CD drive recognised.

CD-ROM is a Mitsumi FX001D, Port is 0x300-0x303, No IRQ
I know its a proprietary POS.
I've read the CD-ROM Mini HOWTO and the parts of the RH6.0 Installation
Guide
( including Appendix E ) that pertain.
Whatever I do, the best I can manage is to get to a state where the
machine
tries to read the CD and fails because it thinks there's nothing in the
drive.

If I try setting options manually:
Whether I use the regular ( mcd ) or alternate Mitsumi drivers all I get
most times is "I can't find the device anywhere on your system".

If I try autoprobing:
Machine tries to "Initialize CD" then fails "mount failed, no medium
found".

Some of you will ask the obvious question about the drive...
All I can say is BillOS95 has no problems with it.

Anybody out there have a clue what the problem may be.

Thanx.....

IBM

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LDP Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO (CD-ROM drives):
    http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-16.html

LDP The Linux CD-ROM HOWTO (Proprietary CD-ROM Drives):
    http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.3

Hope this helps,
Daniel W. Erskine

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Quote:>Cannot get CD drive recognised.
>CD-ROM is a Mitsumi FX001D, Port is 0x300-0x303, No IRQ

Impossible. That drive definitely uses an IRQ, even in DOS/Win* .
The Linux mcd driver defaults to 0x300, IRQ 11 , IIRC. If there's
no IRQ assigned, it will not work. Install the DOS drivers for that
drive and set the jumpers on the Mitsumi interface card appropriately.
If you're having this drive* off of a soundcard, you'll need
to load the soundcard drivers first.

Michael
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Quote:> no IRQ assigned, it will not work. Install the DOS drivers for that
> drive and set the jumpers on the Mitsumi interface card appropriately.

Quote:> If you're having this drive* off of a soundcard, you'll need
> to load the soundcard drivers first.

<QUOTE>
Class: CDROM
Device: Mitsumi Model No. FX001D
No resources used.
</QUOTE>

and at the end of the listing:

<QUOTE>
Class: CD-ROM controllers
Device: Mitsumi CD-ROM Controller with Double Speed Drive
Resources:
  I/O: 0300h-0303h
Device Drivers:
  C:\WINDO(ZE)\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS\mtmminip.mpd
    File size: 21968 bytes
    Manufacturer: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    File version: 1.46
    Copyright: ....
</QUOTE>

        I guess the message here is that Dell put the POS together
        in a non-standard way. Figures.....

        Thanx for the info.

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Quote:>         I guess the message here is that Dell put the POS together

        IBM

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Quote:>> Impossible. That drive definitely uses an IRQ, even in DOS/Win* .
>> The Linux mcd driver defaults to 0x300, IRQ 11 , IIRC. If there's
>    Actually tried that explicitly --> mcd=0x300,11

Quote:>> no IRQ assigned, it will not work. Install the DOS drivers for that
>> drive and set the jumpers on the Mitsumi interface card appropriately.
>    So "mtmminip.mtd" ( see below ) isn't the DOS driver?

Urgh. That is the Mitsumi Polling Driver, and 100% proprietary junk.
You might want to check the hardware (soundcard or interface card)
for alternative settings; there is no polling driver for a CDROM
in Linux at all, AFAIK.
Right out of my head, the Mitsumi came with separate drivers for
IRQ-driven and non-IRQ-driven operation, but I may be wrong here (it's
years ago that I actually used one of these drives).

Michael
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Ian, you may want to double-check IRQ settings, first I tried I had a
conflict with my sound card.

I recall having used this drive in a pentium class PC to install
Mandrake 6.1 with no problems at all.

Michael