Creative IDE CD-ROM drive not recognized

[Marco De Palma]

I have just installed Linux 2.0 on my PC, but I had

to install it by first copying the files on the hard disk

since Linux does not detect my CD-ROM drive.

I have an 8x Creative IDE CD-ROM drive, connected to the

second IDE controller on the motherboard (the hard disk

is connected to the first IDE controller).

The CD-ROM works fine with both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.

The drive is configured as SLAVE since, when I configure it as

MASTER, it is not recognized by the BIOS when the system

is powered up.

This looks strange since, being the only drive for the second

controller, it should be configured as MASTER.

Anyway, when Linux boots, it finds the hard drive /dev/hda, but then the

following message is displayed:

/dev/hdd: no response (status = 0xd0)

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.
Please reply also by E-mail since I am often unable to read the
newsgroups.

Marco De Palma

E-mail: mar...@iol.it

[M. Buchenrieder]

Marco De Palma <mar...@iol.it> writes:

>The CD-ROM works fine with both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.

>The drive is configured as SLAVE since, when I configure it as
>MASTER, it is not recognized by the BIOS when the system
>is powered up.
>This looks strange since, being the only drive for the second
>controller, it should be configured as MASTER.

Correct. However, this will sometimes not work.

>Anyway, when Linux boots, it finds the hard drive /dev/hda, but then the
>following message is displayed:
>/dev/hdd: no response (status = 0xd0)

[...]

Try adding

hdd=cdrom

to the startup parameters.

Michael
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