Re: REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

[Wintermute]

Zula wrote:

> 
> I'm using the Debian linux and have that same problem with the sony
> cdu31a  x2 speed. I'm at the installing OS and device drivers, It
> can'r pick prorietary  cdrom. I  made the device drivers {rawrite2 -f
> drv1440.bin -d a:). Is there something i miss? I tried the
> cdu31a=0x320,0 lbut still no luck.. any help will be appreciated.

Well first off, you will need to know what I/O base address your CDROM
is set.  Usually this can be found by looking at the driver line in
MSDOS (if you still have it), or by looking at the proprietary adapter
card itself.  Usually this number increases evenly, so your particular
CDROM might could be anywhere from 0x320-0x360.  You may wish to try
number in between until you find one that works.

The ",0" on the line indicates that you wish to use "Polled I/O" mode
with the CDROM instead of "Direct DMA" access. To tell the driver to use
DMA, use ",1" instead.

A question.  Does your CDU drive hook into a proprietary controller
card?  If not what is it attached to?


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Re: REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

[Wintermute]

Michael S. Howard wrote:

> I just got another Puter, a 486 66MHz && 16MB RAM the works
> just fine with good old Slackware 3.0 (yes it's old). Anyway,
> I am trying to install REDHAT 4.1 and it cannot autoprobe the
> SONY CDU-33A 2x CDROM (it was found under Slackware 3.0)
>
> Does anyone know the option that I need to supply to get the
> REDHAT modules to load?
>
> -MikeH
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 Aww C'mon guys.. that's no way to treat a Linux user.

I'll give it a go..

When I had a Sony cdu31a a long time back I had to use :
cdu31a=0x320,0

I put that on the lilo boot line, and appended it to the options later on
when I compiled cdu31a support as a module.

It seems that the SONY line of CDROM drives are prorietary and so they can
only use a polling method to access the card and not direct DMA so that's
why the ,0 in the option line.  Anyways... replace the 0x320 above with
your address and give it a go...  As I had a cdu31a it may be different,
but chances are, if your CDROM hooks into a proprietary controller (and not
to an IDE controller card for instance), this could be the answer for
you...

A lot of help can be found in the CDROM HOW-TO as well, including some
advice on misbehaving CDU drives.

Good luck.



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Re: REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

[Bruce Perens]

Please don't address redhat questions to the Debian mailing lists.

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Re: REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

[Kevin Traas]

You're asking this on a *Debian* Linux mailing list?  Sorry, buddy, but
there aren't too many people here that are going to be able to help you
out  I've never used RedHat.

You're going to want to check out http://www.redhat.com for RedHat support.
They've got mailing lists too - and you'll be much better served there

Sorry,
Kevin

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Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 11:12 PM
Subject: REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A


>I just got another Puter, a 486 66MHz && 16MB RAM the works
>just fine with good old Slackware 3.0 (yes it's old). Anyway,
>I am trying to install REDHAT 4.1 and it cannot autoprobe the
>SONY CDU-33A 2x CDROM (it was found under Slackware 3.0)
>
>Does anyone know the option that I need to supply to get the
>REDHAT modules to load?
>
>-MikeH
>
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Re: REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

[Ben Gertzfield]

> "Michael" == Michael S Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Michael> Does anyone know the option that I need to supply to get
Michael> the REDHAT modules to load?

No, but we can help you with this nifty Linux distribution called
'Debian' :)

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REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

[Michael S. Howard]

I just got another Puter, a 486 66MHz && 16MB RAM the works
just fine with good old Slackware 3.0 (yes it's old). Anyway,
I am trying to install REDHAT 4.1 and it cannot autoprobe the
SONY CDU-33A 2x CDROM (it was found under Slackware 3.0)

Does anyone know the option that I need to supply to get the
REDHAT modules to load?

-MikeH

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