[ILUG] Modem and CDROM Problems

[Bernard Murphy]

I have two problems to overcome having set up the Caldera OpenLinux and would be very obliged if you could set me on the right track. I do not have much notion of the mechanics of computers but the following is information I picked out in the hope that it may be enough to get me an answer.

(1) I cannot get Linux to recognize my CDROM. The following is a resume of the information I have gleaned and hope that it will be sufficient for someone out there to assist.
I have two hard drives and have devoted the second one D to Linux alone.

On the BIOS SetUp Utility I see the following :
Primary IDE Master	[Quantum Fireball_TM3200A1]
Primary IDE Slave	[2160 MB]
Secondary IDE Master	[Philips CDD3610 CD-R/RW]
Secondary IDE Slave	[CD-ROM 24X/AKOx]


On my computer the normal CDROM is on the H drive and the CDROM/R-R/W is on the G drive.
 From the boot script I see the following :

Kernel: Initializing block devices <<<
Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisk of 4096k size
ide ..etc. etc. and then.......
hda :	Quantum Fireball etc.
hdb:	Maxtor 8216od2 etc.
hdc:	no response (status=OxdO),resetting drive
hdc:	Philips CDD3610 CD-R/RW, ATAPI CDROM drive
ideO at O X 1fO -OX1f7,OX3f6 on irq 14
ide 1 at O X 170 - OX177,)X376 on irq15.

Kernel: Check disk partition tables
Partition check:
hda:	hda1
hdb:	hdb1  hdb2

& finally I looked in the etc/fstab to get the following:-

/dev/hdb2 /ext2 defaults 0 1
/proc /proc proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 none swap defaults 0 0
#
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 defaults, nonauto 0 0
#
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro, noauto 0 0

I hope the above information is sufficient to get an answer.


The second problem is that I cannot connect to the modem. The internal modem is connected to COM1 - but every time I go through Minicom -c to test the connection I get the following:

" Configuration file not found using defaults 	Device /dev/ttyS1 is locked"

Any ideas as to what I need to do to correct the above ??


Thanks for your assistance.

Bernard Murphy
7th.June 1999



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