Re: Debain 1.2 install and sony cdu33a... (fwd)

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

<polytope@linuxware.com> writes:

> Hmm.  Installing Debian 1.23 i have a major problem.  Booting up, the
> thing looks for loads of types of CD except cdu33a...which i have.  It
> says it finds asony 535 at 340 and prints rubbish characters (c-cedilla,
> as in garcon).

Autoprobing for the cdu31a and cdu33a in the wrong place makes the
machine lock up very often.  My command line (from lilo.conf) is:

    isp16=0x340,10,Sony cdu31a=0x340,10

(I _do_ have a CDU33A - it's the 2x version of the CDU31A and uses the
same driver.)

Once you get the driver looking in the right place and reserving
memory there, a lot of other drivers should skip their probing for
nonexistent hardware much quicker.

-- 
		   Carey Evans  <*>  c.evans@clear.net.nz

"these are not inherent flaws in the operating system -- they don't happen by
 accident.  They are the result of deliberate and well-thought-out efforts."


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