[CLUG] Identify CD-ROM drive?

[James_Baldwin at dell.com]

Erm, That CDROM is not a simple IDE device at all!  It must use its
Propretiary I/O Card.  You probably have an FX-102, which may I add suck to
configure! Like the blue DIP switches on the card? they do fuck all
actually, apart from hardcoding a crappy I/O range for the card to use.(laf
probably the monochrome Hercules range :) )!

As far as DOS drivers goes, Mutsumi still have them banging around somewhere
on their site I believe!  
As far as Linux driver goes for the card.......ha!  doubt it very much,
unless someone somewhere went to the bother of coding up one for theirs.  I
think you would have better luck finding an understanding traffic warden
before finding that driver!

http://www.scan.co.uk/cdrom.htm

Good Luck....

J.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Flynn [mailto:peter at silmaril.ie]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:59 PM
To: cork at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [CLUG] Identify CD-ROM drive?


On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Hegarty wrote:
> try taking it out of the card , and putting it into the normal ide as a
> slave drive. Those old mitsumi cards are useless.

I tried that and it won't even boot (won't even count its chips, and the
CD-ROM tray button suddenly won't work). Looks like it can't be slave,
as there are no jumpers on the CD-ROM unit itself.

///Peter

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