I had what I believe was a cdu31a CDrom it was 2X. Mine attached via a
cable to my soundcard which was "soundblaster compatible". Try this it
should work. NH
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>From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: ancient CD-ROM controller... Desperate!
>Date: Sat, Apr 8, 2000, 8:35 pm
>
>At 12:50 PM 4/8/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>I have a friend who has this ancient system onto which I'd like to install
>>RHL6.1.
>>
>>The HDDs should be easy, the modem seems to be a standard internal (no
>>markings on it, so I'm hopin'...), and the sounds card is a Creative Labs
>Sound
>>Blaster. All that should go fine.
>>
>>The CD-ROM drive is a Sony CDU33a-01, which is reported to be supported in
>the
>>CD-ROM howto. However, I cannot identify the controller card to which it is
>>attached. It's a small card with connectors for Sony, Mitsumi, and
>Panasonic,
>>and the chips on the card (as well as the label on the DOS driver diskette
>>(IIRC)) say "Sun Moon Star". There is a connector on the sound card that I
>>*could* use, but I don't know if that would be any better or not...
>>
>>If anyone has any helpful information (even if it's just where to look to
>read
>>the info), I'd be quite grateful. Not only that, but I might be able to
>>recruit another Linuxer!!
>>
>>-Michael
>>
>Hi Michael,
> If the sound card is a Sound Blaster, or Sound Blaster Pro,
>you should be able to hook the CD ROM drive to it and use the
>Sound Blaster CD driver. I have used a setup like that in the
>past. You can also check out the cdu31a driver. It may work
>with the existing card. (Or it may not... - read the cdu31a
>docs in the Linux source...)
>
>Mikkel
>
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