Re: Sony CDU31A

[Ulrich Czekalla <ulrich pc-9429 on rogers wave ca>]

My cdu33a drive is also connected to my sound card and I still use the
cdu33a/31a driver. I suggest that you recompile your kernel with support
for the sony drive and then add;

 append="cdu31a=0xIRQ,0"

to your lilo.conf file with the appropriate IRQ address. I hope this
helps.

/Ulrich 

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Patrick E. Bennett, Jr. wrote:

> 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 :)
> > >
> > > BrianB
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > BrianB Christian-Chat net
> > > http://www.christian-chat.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
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