[ale] Mitsumi CDROM not working during intsall

[zot at crl.com (Zot from Nt)]

This may be a faq, but hours of searching have not found it....



System:

P75, 16MB IDE HD 630, Mitsumi IDE FX400 (4x)

Infomagic Nov 1995

Either Slackware 3.0 or Redhat 2.1 load fromt he floppies until it probes for
the cdrom.

The cdrom is set to be slave to the Hard Drive. 0x170, IRQ 15

works under dos.


Under Redhat, I see during autoprobing
hdb -- ISO9660 filesystem not supported in kernel.

I check proc/filesystems, iso9660 is in there.  mount returns the same error.

Under Slackare I see error messages onthe text screen
hdb:  Status Error: Status 0x01
                    Error  oXo4
alot, and then:
isofs_read_super:  bread failed, dev 0x340
If I force hdb=cdrom in Lilo under Slackware I get
hda: ....
hdb:  ATAPI CDROM (?)

I have tried several boot images, tried setting the drive to master, but the
computer locked (it is on same cable as HD).


The device seems to exist, but not speak well with the driver.

Any ideas on this one?  I am in a crunch.




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