At 12:50 PM 4/8/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a friend who has this ancient system onto which I'd like to install
>RHL6.1.
>
>The HDDs should be easy, the modem seems to be a standard internal (no
>markings on it, so I'm hopin'...), and the sounds card is a Creative Labs
Sound
>Blaster. All that should go fine.
>
>The CD-ROM drive is a Sony CDU33a-01, which is reported to be supported in
the
>CD-ROM howto. However, I cannot identify the controller card to which it is
>attached. It's a small card with connectors for Sony, Mitsumi, and
Panasonic,
>and the chips on the card (as well as the label on the DOS driver diskette
>(IIRC)) say "Sun Moon Star". There is a connector on the sound card that I
>*could* use, but I don't know if that would be any better or not...
>
>If anyone has any helpful information (even if it's just where to look to
read
>the info), I'd be quite grateful. Not only that, but I might be able to
>recruit another Linuxer!!
>
>-Michael
>
Hi Michael,
If the sound card is a Sound Blaster, or Sound Blaster Pro,
you should be able to hook the CD ROM drive to it and use the
Sound Blaster CD driver. I have used a setup like that in the
past. You can also check out the cdu31a driver. It may work
with the existing card. (Or it may not... - read the cdu31a
docs in the Linux source...)
Mikkel
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