According to the documentation (CDROM-HOWTO, Kernel-HOWTO,etc.), it is sufficient to select (with Yes) the kernel compilation options BLK_DEV_IDE, BLK_DEV_IDECD, and ISO9660_FS to have support for an IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive. I did, and the boot message says "can't find cdrom module": indeed, since no specific module has been selected, there is no file.o in /lib/modules/2.0.34/cdrom. I have a Teac CD-44E which is swappable with a floppy drive in an IBM Thikpad 760 CD. The closest drive in the documentation list is a Teac 55, for which cdrom.h is the correct module, in addition with sbpcd. Is it necessary to select at least one type of module for compilation in order to have the generic module cdrom.o? The documentaiton says NO. By the way, it does not hurt to select them all and leave the system d its choice. However, since I hardly ever have the CD drive in the PC and since the boot message comes up in any case, I'd like to find out what is what. Thank you. Remo ________________________________________________________ | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland | |____________________________|___________________________| | badii "at" psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii | |____________________________|___________________________|
