RE: ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems

1999-01-25 Thread Shaleh
Hi Terry, sorry this is your welcome to Linux. Perhaps you could try the boot disks in either slink or potato on the ftp site. Perhaps the newer kernel will help. All linux dists use the same kernel and mostly the same apps, it is the packaging and file placement that differs. It would be

ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems

1999-01-21 Thread Terry Hancock
Well, this becomes a long story (3 months of hassle so far :) ), so here's a keyword list: ATAPI CDROM Linux distributions Debian Linux NEC-260 (250?) CDROM Creative Labs CD1220E CDROM Award BIOS IDT-C6 Winchip, 200MHz Shuttle Spacewalker Motherboard (HOT-569) I'm trying to get my first Linux

ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems

1999-01-21 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I've had some problems with cdroms too, but different. I have a cdrom made by Panasonic for IBM that is labeled as an 8X atapi. When it was connected as a master on a paddle card (aux ide card strapped as ide #2) the bios saw it correctly, but linux thought it was a tape drive! When strapped as