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by **mar** » Wed, 18 May 1994 07:00:54

Finally!

As I posted recently, I got the TA CD-ROM, and found that the setup kernel
recognized the CD drive, but the installed one didn't. I had trouble with
the recompile, as well.

The answer is:
in (I think it's) /etc/include/linux/drivers/blocks, there are *two*
makefiles. One is named Makefile, the other Makefile.orig. When
I diffed them, I discovered Makefile.orig *had* conditions for
compiling the Mitsumi driver, the Soundblaster driver, and one
other driver, and Makefile *didn't*. I renamed both, and reran
the compile. No problems, using lilo (after the usual moving &
/etc/lilo/install) I boot off my hard drive, I can mount the
CD ROM, etc.

I am emailing TA this, as well.

mark

by **Rob Janss** » Wed, 18 May 1994 17:52:50

Quote:>Finally!
>As I posted recently, I got the TA CD-ROM, and found that the setup kernel
>recognized the CD drive, but the installed one didn't. I had trouble with
>the recompile, as well.
>The answer is:
> in (I think it's) /etc/include/linux/drivers/blocks, there are *two*
> makefiles. One is named Makefile, the other Makefile.orig. When
> I diffed them, I discovered Makefile.orig *had* conditions for
> compiling the Mitsumi driver, the Soundblaster driver, and one
> other driver, and Makefile *didn't*. I renamed both, and reran
> the compile. No problems, using lilo (after the usual moving &
> /etc/lilo/install) I boot off my hard drive, I can mount the
> CD ROM, etc.

It probably means something went wrong when you were patching things.
Try to re-build the source tree from a clean point.
(cd /usr/src; rm -rf linux; tar xvzf some.version.tar.gz; patch -p0 -s patches)

Rob
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by **j..** » Sun, 22 May 1994 08:30:11

Hi, I have found a problem with the mitsumi driver in both the kernel
on the April InfoMagic CDROM and the v1.1.0 kernel on Sunsite.
On line 884 of mcd.c it calls irqaction(MCD_INTR_NR, &mcd_sigaction)
It should be: irqaction(mcd_irq, &mcd_sigaction)

The upshot is that the driver always trys to use irq 11, even if you
overide the irq on the lilo boot line.

This caused the aha152x driver to panic when it couldn't get the irq
so I couldn't install from the InfoMagic CDROM!

Oh well, back to making the floppy images!

Byee
Jo

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linux, Mitsumi CD-ROM (& SB), & the TA CD-ROM - solved!

linux, Mitsumi CD-ROM (& SB), & the TA CD-ROM - solved!

linux, Mitsumi CD-ROM (& SB), & the TA CD-ROM - solved!

linux, Mitsumi CD-ROM (& SB), & the TA CD-ROM - solved!