Re: Pioneer A24X CDROM problems on 2.1.57
Erik Andersen (andersee@debian.org)
Sat, 11 Oct 1997 04:07:40 -0600
On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 10:24:23AM -0700, Darin Johnson wrote:
> > From: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net>
>
> > God I hate "me too" posts, but...
> >
> > Me too.
>
> A *lot* of people are having troubles with that drive. (me too :-)
> I returned mine.
>
> > However, unlike your success with '95, mine croaks under NT. This is
> > indicating to me that it's a hardware problem, but I'd like to find out if
> > there's a software or hardware configuration solution before writing off a
> > perfectly good machine. ;-)
>
> I don't think it's configuration. My gut feeling, with no evidence
> except the number of people with problems under NT and Linux, is that
> it's not really ATAPI. That is, Linux is sending perfectly valid
> init commands to the drive, but the drive doesn't recognize them.
> My theory is that they used the "80% of the market" rule, and
> implemented just enough of ATAPI to work under Win95 drivers.
Hi, try the following:
Set your kerenel's command line to "hdX=cdrom" to bypass the auto cdrom drive
detection. It seems that the Pioneer A24X CDROM is broken when it comes to
identifying itself as an ATAPI cdrom drive. Bypassing the auto-detect and
forcing the kernel to believe it is ATAPI compliant (which it apparently isn't)
seems to make it work.
-Erik
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