Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 4007
Information supplied but unused...
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:51 EDT
I'm continuing the struggle with RH6.0, this time trying to get my CD-ROM drive to be recognised. It's a Teac drive on a Soundblaster 16 card. I've got a Dos disk with drivers that allow me to get to the CD, and the initrd loads (after mods to autoboot.bat (see bug # 3951)). I can install a basic system - the install asks me what sort of CD I have, I tell it sbpcd and let it autoprobe, it finds the drive and continues. When I tried to use rpm to install extra packages from the CD, I found no /cdrom directory. I looked at /etc/fstab, and there was no cdrom entry. Surely, having found the drive during install, the install program should know there is a CD there, and set up the appropriate module(s) and configurations to enable the drive (at least for data) when the install is done and rebooted? In this case, the CD is attached to a sound card, so the install should also recognise this, and install and configure the sound system, with the XF86/Gnome applications if X-windows is selected during install. All the information is there to be used - why not use it?? I installed the sbpcd module via the Gnome System Configuration tool, (as sbpcd=0x230,1) then looked at /etc/fstab again, noting the mount point as /mnt/cdrom (I had not looked here earlier), and checked the symlink from /dev/sbpcd to /dev/cdrom, but I still can't access the CD. Should I have set it up as sbpcd=0x230,3 ? I have killed this install - it was giving me too much grief, and I needed the space on the drive. I will be tring it again soon on another drive, but would like a smoother install if possible... Hopefully helpfully Dexter
Normally you should leave the second parameter blank so that you just have sbpcd=0x230 But in most cases you dont need to tell the driver anything. It should just find it. After making a link /dev/cdrom to /dev/sbpcd and then add the following line to your fstab /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 If this still doesnt work you will need to add the sbpcd=0x230 line to your lilo.conf in the linux boot section the following append = "sbpcd=0x230" then save the change and run lilo from the command prompt. Then reboot and try again. Of course the 0x230 should be whatever the I/O address is for the CD-ROM port of your sound card. The manual should tell you that.