similar CD-ROM problems

[geof at denali.is.net (UNIX Guru Dude)]

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}I too am having problems getting Linux to recognize my CDROM drive.  I've 
}got a P75 with 8M, a Diamond Stealth 64 graphics card (S3), a 
}soundblaster 16 sound card, and a Hitachi CDROM drive.

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}Thanks, in advance, for any hints/suggestions.
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}			-Al Leach (aleach at cc.gatech.edu)
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Need more info about your cdrom.  Is it IDE or SCSI?  In either case you
may have to pass some parameters to the boot disc.  Remember when it stops
and says, "don't swap discs now, you may enter additional required parameters
here" or something like that?  This is where you can further define your
cdrom.

I had to do two things to get linux to recognize my IDE cdrom.  First
I had to create the /dev/hdd device.  There's a script that will do that
for you.  Second, I had to add to my LILO append="hdd=cdrom" so it would
know which device it was on.  Now this is for IDE, so again, tell us
more about your hardware.

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