Curt Salada wrote: > > Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: > > My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 > and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following > SCSI-related errors in dmesg: > > NCR 53c406a: no available ports found > Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
that msg will disappear when you will have compiled your own kernel > > (Transcript of complete dmesg at > http://americasisp.net/hp/debbie/curt/dmesg.txt) > > I saw nothing inside the PC that indicated this was an SCSI CD-ROM. > Motherboard has 3 cards connected to it: > > 1. video board (outputs to monitor) > 2. interface board(?) has IDE port (connects to HDDs), floppy port, serial > port, game port, printer port > 3. "CD-ROM DRIVE 16 BIT I/F CARD" -- goes to CD-ROM (Mitsumi 2x Model > CRMC-FX0010, dated May '94) -- card also has stereo RCA output jacks > perhaps you need to build the rescue and drivers floppies to load the module for the CD drive (it seems to be a rather exotic one --- neither ATAPI nor SCSI ---) from the floppies. greetings Albrecht
