recognising my cd drive?

[cogNiTioN <cognition@bigfoot.com>]

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Hi,

I've recently recieved an indy cd (thanks Mike), and so far I've got just
one problem with it. During instalation it doesn't seem to be able to
recognise my CD ROM drive. I've had this problem with previous RedHat and
OpenLinux installations I tried, but not on SuSE Linux 5.2, which is why
it's currently what I run.

I know that I need the optcd driver (well thats the one that works for me
currently, I think), but how do I find out what options I need to specify?

I greped /etc/* for 'optcd' and got this:
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/etc/conf.modules:# options optcd          optcd=0x340
/etc/conf.modules:alias block-major-17      optcd
/etc/conf.modules:options optcd optcd=0x320
/etc/conf.modules.orig:# options optcd          optcd=0x340
/etc/conf.modules.orig:alias block-major-17      optcd
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if that is of any help. I've tried specifying the option optcd=0x320, but
that still doesn't work.

The cdrom drive piggy backs off of a sound blater (?) sound card, and was
detected fine by the SuSE autoprobe.

I've also been able to mount the Indy cd in both windows and my current
Linux install, so I don't think the problem is with the cd.

my BIOS doesn't support booting from the cd, well it doesn't seem to
anyway, so I was using the boot disc.

I didn't make a note of the exact error message, but it was something
along the lines of "Device could not be found on this system."

TIA

cog
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