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> Brad, > Your problems with the CD-ROM under Linux are very similar to mine (although > my CD-ROM is built in). On a good side, yesterday I made a SCSI Toshiba > CD-ROM work with a Bust Toaster PCMCIA card. It worked superbly. All I > needed to do is 'mount -t iso9600 /dev/scd0 /cdrom' and I was done. > > The build in CD-ROM for 755CD is IDE ATAPI, and it was identified as such. > but the file ide-cd.c in the kernel drivers/block directory seems to have > bugs. Your Caldera drive is also ATAPI, so it points to the same source of > problems. Hmmm. Seems a bit of a misunderstanding. The Caldera is a CD, not a drive. It is a Linux installation like Slackware and just happens to be the first CD I've really tried to use with my 755CD. I am using the builtin CDROM drive of the 755CD and so am having the exact same problems as you! The good news is I stayed up almost all last night and finally fixed it! What I had to do was get the source code for linux/drivers/block/ ide-cd.c from the linux-1.3.0.tar.gz source code. The ide-cd.c code in this release mentioned a fix for some drives that sounded like our problem and when I copied it over and re-built my 1.2.11 Linux kernel, everything works great! As an added note - many thanks to someone who recently mentioned that some DSP stuff works if you boot DOS first and then Linux by using loadlin. I did that and I can now use audio-cds in my 755CD and have the sound go through to the speaker! Also I built a kernel with the sound stuff built-in and it says it found a Sound Blaster 2.0 card. Sadly when I tried to use linuxxdoom all I got was load-white noise (and I think an error from sndserver about can't play 16bit sounds or something?). So at least a little but works and I'm going to play around with the Soundblaster stuff some more and maybe I can get it working without even writing Linux MWave drivers! > > A possibly related problem is that when I had the CDROM in my Thinkpad, > > my PCMCIA Ethernet card (GVC NE2000 compat) was going nuts and I geting > > errors. When I switched the Ethernet card to the second PCMCIA socket, > > all was fine! ... > > This seems like a different problem, perhaps with the PCMCIA card. > I use a Kingston EtheRx card and it appears to work fine in both PCMCIA > slots. This one needs an entry in pcmcia/config which is a copy of the > IBM Credit Card adapter's entry. Yes I figured it was more card related but thought maybe it had some bearing... > Thank you. > -- Marek R. Rychlik +----------------------------Ren & Stimpy--------------------------------+ | "Psst. Hey Guido. It's all so clear to me now. I'm the keeper of the | | cheese. And you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it. That's | | why he's gonna kill us. So we gotta beat it. Yeah. Before he lets | | loose the marmosets on us! Don't worry, little missy! I'll save you!" | +------------------ Brad Pepers -- pepersb@cuug.ab.ca -------------------+