[linux-help] Re: Can't mount cdrom

[David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The only other thing that I could suggest if you are sure that it is your
systems BIOS is to get an IDE card for the computer and turn off the onboard
IDE... I don't know what local pricing for these are [hey the Saturday Sale
is coming up..] but an online dealer that I have good luck with over the
past few years is "Computer Geeks" and they sell one or two different RAID
IDE controllers that will also work as stand alone IDE controllers.. at
least one of them that I purchased even saw my age old NEC 4X4 CD-Rom drives
and works like a charm since it has its own BIOS that comes up when the PCI
bus is scanned before the OS's is run.. I am unsure how LINUX will work with
these.. but there might be drivers for it.

http://www.compgeeks.com

DMA IDE133 controller page:
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PCIATA133-NB

--David
----- Original Message -----
From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:07 PM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Can't mount cdrom


>
> On Tuesday 09 July 2002 12:30 am, you wrote:
> > I hate to tell you this but on most Compaq machines you need to have a
BIOS
> > BOOT disk since it seems that you have formatted over the BIOS BOOT
SECTOR
> > of your systems harddrive when you installed Linux. Other wise it should
be
> > 'F-10' key
>
> Thanks, David.  When I ran fdisk, there was a partition of two or three
> cylinders at the front which I reckoned was diagnostics or bios or
something
> to leave - so I left it there.
>
> This morning I downloaded two floppies of setup and tried it.  Compaq
really
> isn't with the rest of the world.  I managed to add a small hard drive,
but
> couldn't make it admit that someone would want to add a cdrom.  Nearest I
> could find was type 15 - 1 cylinder, 1 head, and 1 sector per cylinder.  I
> put that in and the hard drive is recognized, but still no cdrom.
>
> Still struggling,
> bruce
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