Richard, Steven --
The problems you are having result from looking at different documentation,
and the documentation here is simply inconsistent. The (undated, alas, but
with a May 20, 1998 filestamp) file Steven refers to at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd says the CD200 is not supported by
Release 4.2 if the module (the document says it applies to "4.2 or newer",
but since it is undated, we cannot know if it was updated to reflect later
changes -- the current version is 4.61 in my Debian 2.1 kernel tree (kernel
2.0.36)). The comments at the start of the source listing do list the CD200
(not the CD200F) as supported.
The (also undated, but with a copyright notice for 1995-1999, and with an
October 22, 1999 filestamp) file Richard refers to at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help does say the CD200 is supported,
but makes no mention of the CD200F.
But ... the original poster was using Slackware 96, which would presumably
use an old version of the sbpcd module (something I can't check without
actually doing a kernel source install from that CD). On it, the file
/DOCS/Cdrom-ho lists the CD200 (not the CD200F) as supported by the sbpcd
module. Unfortunately, the usually helpful /bootdsks.144/which.one file is
not specific about this, beyond saying that cbpcd.i and sbpcd.s support
Sound Blaster non-IDE CDROM drives.
Having said all of that, I note that the original question wasn't about a
CD200 or CD200F at all, but about a "Panasonic 2X CDROM drive". Slackware 96
claims (in which.one) that sbpcd.i supports "Panasonic ... non-IDE CD-ROM".
Do you *know* that the drive in question is non-IDE? The file
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd notes that many drives connected to
SB cards *are* IDE drives and should be accessed with the ide module (hence,
in Slackware terms, with the bare.i bootdisk).
At 07:21 AM 11/8/99 +0000, Steven wrote:
>Richard Adams wrote:
>>
>> Either you have such an old system or you have
>> missinterpreted the document which you read, if one
>> looks at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help
>> one will see that a CD200 IS supported.
>
>This is not correct. The CD200F is supported.
>The CD200 is not. You will find the details of
>this in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd
>
>> i have a friend who once had such a machine and a
>> CD200 via his soundblaster card, he used to install
>> via his cdrom so it does work,
>
>Perhaps he had a CD200F ?
>
>> Simply saying there is no support is not right,
>
>Well, drive detection and audio work for the CD200,
>so I suppose this is some support. But, data transfer
>is not supported (and this is what really matters).
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