IDE CDROM and SB AWE32

Cameron Bean (CameronBean@oa.ptloma.edu)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:16:34 -0700

I am having quite a bit of trouble getting Linux 2.0.22 to see a Creative
Labs 8x cdrom drive connected to the fourth (io=0x168,irq 10) ide interface
of the SB AWE32 sound card. I have even tried different ide cdroms on this
interface with no luck. The good news, though, is the cdroms can be
detected on the primary and secondary ide interfaces (io=0x1f0, irq 14 and
io=0x170, irq 15) and on the third and forth (io=1e8, irq 11 and io=168,
irq 10) by using another ide interface card. I have tried forcing the
issue with no luck and by using yet another AWE32, also with no luck. Yet
Windows95 can see it just fine.

I suppose this means that the IDE interface on AWE32 sound cards are either
not 100% atapi compatible or, Linux doesn't have the added support for the
AWE32 ide device.

What ever the case may be, I was wondering if anyone has had experience
with this issue who could point me to perhaps a kernel patch or the
appropriate kernel release that would hopefully solve this problem.

Of course, I could move the cdrom to either the primary or secondary ide,
but what fun would that be? And yes, I have tried reconfiguring and
recompiling the kernel and using just about every command line option I
could think of at the lilo prompt.

Thanks.

Cameron Bean

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