When I bought my soundcard/cdrom several years ago, my first priority was compatibility. So I spent a bit more to get the official SoundBlaster product. It is therefore somewhat ironical that my cdrom drive appears to be incompatible with Linux. I am the proud owner of a Creative CD200 cdrom drive. This drive works perfectly in DOS and Windows, but it refuses to work in Linux. I have tried the RedHat auto-detect and the Slackware auto-detect. I have tried SBPCD. They all fail. Please note, this is the CD200 drive, not the CD200F. According to the SBPCD FAQ, that F makes a big difference. Namely, the CD200F works under SBPCD, but the CD200 doesn't. Similarly the Slackware setup tells me that the CD200 is not fully supported yet - only audio will work. I'm getting sick of having to exit Linux every time I want to access the cdrom. And then having to transfer the files via my small DOS partition. Can anybody help? Is there an alternative to SBPCD which might work on my drive? Or is there a way to use the DOS drivers via dosemu (or something like that)? Or should I be thinking of moving the cdrom to my old 386sx20 and accessing it via ethernet? Any comments on this topic would be appreciated. Cheers, Steven
