Re: Installation SONY CD-ROM
CDU31A/CDU33A Driver Info - Information on the Sony CDU31A/CDU33A CDROM driver for the Linux kernel. Corey Minyard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Colossians 3:17 Crude Table of Contents --- Setting Up the Hardware Configuring the Kernel Configuring as a Module Driver Special Features This device driver handles Sony CDU31A/CDU33A CDROM drives and provides a complete block-level interface as well as an ioctl() interface as specified in include/linux/cdrom.h). With this interface, CDROMs can be accessed, standard audio CDs can be played back normally, and CD audio information can be read off the drive. Note that this will only work for CDU31A/CDU33A drives. Some vendors market their drives as CDU31A compatible. They lie. Their drives are really CDU31A hardware interface compatible (they can plug into the same card). They are not software compatible. Setting Up the Hardware --- The CDU31A driver in unable to safely tell if an interface card is present that it can use because the interface card does not announce its presence in any way besides placing 4 I/O locations in memory. It used to just probe memory and attempt commands, but Linus wisely asked me to remove that because it could really screw up other hardware in the system. Because of this, you must tell the kernel where the drive interface is, what interrupts are used, and possibly if you are on a PAS-16 soundcard. If you have the Sony CDU31A/CDU33A drive interface card, the following diagram will help you set it up. If You have another card, you are on your own. You need to make sure that the I/O address and interrupt is not used by another card in the system. You will need to know the I/O address and interrupt you have set. Note that use of interrupts is highly recommended, if possible, it really cuts down on CPU used. Unfortunately, most soundcards do not support interrupts for their CDROM interfaces. By default, the Sony interface card comes with interrupts disabled. +--+-+--+ | JP1 | 34 Pin Conn| | | JP2 +-+ | | JP3 | | JP4 | | +--+ | | +-+ | | | | External | | | | Connector | | | | | | +-+ | +--+ | | | ++ | | +--+ JP1 sets the Base Address, using the following settings: Address Pin 1 Pin 2 --- - - 0x320 Short Short 0x330 Short Open 0x340 OpenShort 0x360 OpenOpen JP2 and JP3 configure the DMA channel; they must be set the same. DMA Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 --- - - - 1 On Off On 2 Off On Off 3 Off Off On JP4 Configures the IRQ: IRQ Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 Pin 4 --- - - - - 3 Off Off On Off 4 Off Off*Off On 5 On Off Off Off 6 Off On Off Off The documentation states to set this for interrupt 4, but I think that is a mistake. Note that if you have another interface card, you will need to look at the documentation to find the I/O base address. This is specified to the SLCD.SYS driver for DOS with the /B: parameter, so you can look at you DOS driver setup to find the address, if necessary. Configuring the Kernel -- You must tell the kernel where the drive is at boot time. This can be done at the Linux boot prompt, by using LILO, or by using Bootlin. Note that this is no substitute for HOWTOs and LILO documentation, if you are confused please read those for info on bootline
Re: Installation SONY CD-ROM
darren morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom from the boot! magazine (Nov. '97) :and I constructed my disks using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, and everything is :fine there. However, since I'm a newbie, my question is regarding in the :CD Rom installation. I have a SONY CDU31-A, and the prompt comes up during :installation asking me for a command line argument. What?!?! What is :it? (I have the port addresses in my Sound Blaster 16 manual, if that's :what its talking about). I too am having the same frustrations that Darren is with the disk from Boot magazine. I have been trying to ignore the device drivers part of the installation, but when I log onto the system, the system cannot find my CD-ROM to do dselect (I'm not sure, but I don't think it is finding my floppy drive, either). Questions: (1) Is there on-line documentation explaining in greater detail what needs to be done during the install device drivers exercise (it is not intuitive, at least to me)? The documentation that I have found on the disk and on-line so far just slides over this part of the installation. (2) If the answer to (1) is No, then: (a) Do I need to load a device driver during installation and issue commands to it so that my floppy drive will be recognized (a standard 3.5, 1.44 MB drive configured as drive a:)? (b) What should I do during the installation to get the system to recognize the CD-ROM attached to my Soundblaster 16 PnP (Win95 tells me it's a Matshita CR-581-M attached to a standard IDE/ESDI controller; the IRQ is 10; I have no idea what the port number is; all the jumpers have been removed). (c) Will I need to perform a mount command after I log onto the system as root? (3) At the moment, I am not sweating about my printer, mouse, or modem. I am presuming that once I get onto the CD, that I should be able to fix those things. Is this a good presumption? Right now, I have a skeletal system that I can play with to learn Unix commands (a valuable exercise in itself), but I would really like to get at all the riches waiting for me on the CD-ROM. Many thanks for your help! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DEBIAN QUESTION RE: INSTALLATION SONY CD-ROM
As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question, Since I'm a newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed. My question involves installing the SONY CDU31A. I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom from the boot! magazine (Nov. '97) and I constructed my disks using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, and everything is fine there. However, since I'm a newbie, my question is regarding in the CD Rom installation. I have a SONY CDU31-A, and the prompt comes up during installation asking me for a command line argument. What?!?! What is it? (I have the port addresses in my Sound Blaster 16 manual, if that's what its talking about). What do I do with it? I type in the numbers for IRQ and whatever, and it starts looking for itand never stops, forcing me to CTRLALTDEL and having to start all over again. PLEASE HELP!!! I've tried everything I know, just as long as I don't get another RTFM again (I printed out the Debian Linux Installation and getting started manual by Boris Beletsky, by the way). Im following along, but I've tried 8 times just to get this thing going and as far as I have gotten is up to install CDRom inteface from the menu. P.S. Just in case something else goes wrong, I'm letting you know I bought Partition Magic so I could split my WIN 95 and Linux up (if I ever get it going...). Sincerely, [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-( -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DEBIAN QUESTION RE: INSTALLATION SONY CD-ROM
Darren, I saved this message some time back. I don't have one of these myself, but the argument you need seems to be 0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 19 13:50:03 1997 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 03:32:59 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cdu31a Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:35:19 +0800 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 14 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend is trying to convert to Debian from Slakware. He's using buzz-fixed off an Info Magic cdrom, and can't get the installation boot disk to recognize his cdu31a. At the lilo prompt, he's type linux cdu31a=0x230,0 This lilo parameter worked fine under slakware. Any suggestions? This gave me the hardest time of installation too and i lost two days being without a reasonably working system trying to find this out and reinstalling numerous times until Bruce gave me the right advice: Try: modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 If you use modconf (the module configuration menu) use the arguments cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 Adapt as needed. It's all stated in the kernel documentation included with the sources which are not present upon the stage of the base system installation. And the information *present* during installation time is somewhat misleading because the old scheme of passing parameters to LILO doesn't work with the new 2.0.xx kernels. This should be revised in the setup configuration. Or is it already for Debian-1.2 release? P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch via email if needed. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, darren morin wrote: As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question, Since I'm a newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed. My question involves installing the SONY CDU31A. I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom from the boot! magazine (Nov. '97) and I constructed my disks using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, and everything is fine there. However, since I'm a newbie, my question is regarding in the CD Rom installation. I have a SONY CDU31-A, and the prompt comes up during installation asking me for a command line argument. What?!?! What is it? (I have the port addresses in my Sound Blaster 16 manual, if that's what its talking about). What do I do with it? I type in the numbers for IRQ and whatever, and it starts looking for itand never stops, forcing me to CTRLALTDEL and having to start all over again. PLEASE HELP!!! I've tried everything I know, just as long as I don't get another RTFM again (I printed out the Debian Linux Installation and getting started manual by Boris Beletsky, by the way). Im following along, but I've tried 8 times just to get this thing going and as far as I have gotten is up to install CDRom inteface from the menu. P.S. Just in case something else goes wrong, I'm letting you know I bought Partition Magic so I could split my WIN 95 and Linux up (if I ever get it going...). Sincerely, [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-( -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installation SONY CD-ROM
As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question, Since I'm a newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed. My question involves installing the SONY CDU31A. I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom from the boot! magazine (Nov. '97) and I constructed my disks using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, and everything is fine there. However, since I'm a newbie, my question is regarding in the CD Rom installation. I have a SONY CDU31-A, and the prompt comes up during installation asking me for a command line argument. What?!?! What is it? (I have the port addresses in my Sound Blaster 16 manual, if that's what its talking about). What do I do with it? I type in the numbers for IRQ and whatever, and it starts looking for itand never stops, forcing me to CTRLALTDEL and having to start all over again. PLEASE HELP!!! I've tried everything I know, just as long as I don't get another RTFM again (I printed out the Debian Linux Installation and getting started manual by Boris Beletsky, by the way). Im following along, but I've tried 8 times just to get this thing going and as far as I have gotten is up to install CDRom inteface from the menu. P.S. Just in case something else goes wrong, I'm letting you know I bought Partition Magic so I could split my WIN 95 and Linux up (if I ever get it going...). Sincerely, [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-( -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
