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Hi !Quote:> I am trying to install SCO Openserver on my pentium 133 PC
> with an IDE CD-ROM. I got a problem after I booted the machine
> from the floppy disk. The only reasonable choice for the
> installation media seems to be SCSI CD-ROM and I set controller as
> "wd". But the system doesn't recognize my CD-ROM even if I have
> tried every combination of the rest settings. My configuration is:
> 1. 500M Corner harddisk as master at primary port on the
motherboard
> 2. creative 8 speed CD-ROM as slave at primary port
> Can you give me some suggestions on how to make the system 'see'
> my CD-ROM? Thank you for your help and time.
This is an article posted by Mr. Lubkin; it think you'll
find it useful.
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OpenServer 5.0.2 sees an IDE controller as a SCSI host adapter, for the
one special purpose of accessing ATAPI CD-ROMs. So if you have one, it
should be recognized. HOWEVER, the following cases may cause it not to
be seen:
1. Some BIOSes do not initialize an IDE controller unless it has at
least one hard drive on it. To work around that, you would have to
move your drives around so that each IDE controller had one hard
drive (and one had the CD-ROM).
2. You may have the CD-ROM configured for slave on the secondary IDE.
*Most* BIOSes won't initialize the IDE controller in that
configuration. To work around that, it *might* be sufficient just
to make the CD-ROM be secondary:master instead of secondary:slave.
3. Your secondary IDE controller may be on an ISA Plug-n-Play card, or
on a sound card, in which case it needs special initialization
steps which OpenServer does not do. To work around that, you would
have to put the CD-ROM on the primary controller.
4. Your CD-ROM might be a strange beast which attaches to an IDE
controller but is *not* ATAPI compliant.
4. Your CD-ROM might be a strange beast which attaches to an IDE
controller but is *not* ATAPI compliant.
5. Your CD-ROM might be a "proprietary interface" drive which attaches
to its own non-SCSI, non-IDE controller card.
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Here's another posted by Mr. Toby L. Kraft; this specifically
refers to the same CD-ROM you're using:
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My experience with various ide drives and cdroms is that some devices
in some combinations simply don't like each other. I was installing
Linux on a Seagate HD (ST31220A) as master, Creative 8x CDRom as slave
and Linux driver would not see cdrom. Swapped with a Toshiba CDRom,
rebooted with no other changes and worked okay. The same Creative
CDRom had worked fine when I installed Linux on a Maxtor 2GB drive
about a month ago.
You might try swapping device roles between master/slave and make the
CDRom be master or try the CDRom as slave with a Connor master.
Good Luck.
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Hope it helps ! Thanks to Mr. Lubkin & to Mr. Kraft for
posting these articles on the group.
Best,
Roberto
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