Re: ASUS CD ROM 340 & 2.1.129+ dont work but work fine with 2.0.35+
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:47:23 +0000 (GMT)
> I had installed dos drivers for asus (but works with all atapi drivers ??
> it worked with my old atapi goldstarcd driver and ibmcd.sys driver in dos )
>
> and from dos i did:
> dir d: ; this only spins drive ( drive d is cdrom )
> c:\linux\loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 ro vga=3
>
> and it booted in linux-2.1.132 fine and it works great under linux
In other words the DOS driver contains some workarounds for the faults with
the drive. Given running that first then booting Linux works, it would be
a reasonable guess from your previous observations that this driver fakes a CD
change or similar to fix the drive problem.
Alan
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