Re: Sony CDU31A

["Patrick E. Bennett, Jr." <stnick slip net>]

Ulrich, et al:

  I hope you can assist me with a similar situation.
  I have a cdu33a Sony drive that is attached to an Opti-Mad sound card on my old
486 ISA/VLB architecture machine.  I could not get the install to recognize it
using the cdu31a driver (though I did not try your fix, suggested below).  While
investigating this situation I discovered that there is a second driver that may
be appropriate in my case, the 'isp16' driver. Unfortunately, this cd-rom option
is not offered by install, so I was outta-luck there too.
  I worked around the problem by borrowing an ATAPI IDE drive from work, so now
I've finished the install, but I have a couple questions:

1) Which is the correct driver in my case, cdu31a, or insp16?

2) How can I install 'insp16' as a module (the cd-rom how to and other info
available on the Red Hat sight is suspicially lacking in this detail- I can only
find the syntax to boot it out of the kernel)?

3) How can I *uninstall* the ATAPI drive, and replace it with my cdu33a?

  In the end, I may just fangle the ATAPI drive outta my boss, we have extras!

  An unrelated question (and realize that as Linux goes I am *very* green): I was
never prompted to insert the second cd-rom that comes with the "official" Red Hat
distribution.... I notice that it is filled with rpm's for the most part.  Should
I do anything with this disc?  Should I load all the rpm's, or what?

  Thanks for the help,
    stnick slip net

Ulrich Czekalla wrote:

> During the install you must change cdu31a into cdu31a_port. In
> other words, when it prompts you for the address type:
>
>         cdu31a_port=0x340,0
>
> This worked for me.
>
> On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, BrianB why net wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install redhat 4.2 linux on a computer that has as
> > Sony CDU-31a CD-ROM.  Win95 does work with this drvies, and verifies
> > that the port is at 340, so for put i put 0x340, and install cannot
> > find the device anywhere on my system.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Please CC: BrianB why net in your reply :)
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