Zen and the Art of CDROMS

[Eric Galliher]

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, David Kramer wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Eric Galliher wrote:
> > Hope you all had a great time at the picnic!
> 
> I know I did!
> 
> > Anyways, like alot of you I just purchased a 
> > cable modem, to be installed on Tuesday,
> 
> I'm getting mine Friday.
> 
> > and am planning(keyword being planning) to use 
> > an old 386DX/40 running redhat to route off
> > the connection to my linux box, and the
> > family win95 computer. To avoid the trouble
> 
> PROBLEM #1- The Terms of Service agreement states that you need at least a
> 486/100MHZ.  I'm pretty sure they won't even hook you up with a 386DX/40.
> You should call and verify (and possibly panic) Monday.

Like every other person who wants to use linux with a cble modem, 
Im having them install it on the win95 box, then just hooking it
up to the linux machine after they leave.


> 
> 
> > The way the computer is set up, the hd connects to
> > an IDE controller card, not an IDE slot on the mother
> > board. The cables then connects daisy chain like to the 
> > HD and the CDROM. The HD is set to master and the CD 
> > is set to slave. The power cords are connected, drivers
> > installed, and after modifying the config.sys and 
> > autoexec.bat several times, still nothing works. The
> > drive is simply not found.
> 
> Can you show us the lines added to those files?

Yeah, tommorow, Im too tired :)

> 
> > So, two questions-
> > 
> > 1. Does the controller card jumpers need to be played
> > with in order for it to receive information from the 
> > CDROM?
> 
> No. Back then, the IDE devices were alway hooked up to a separate card,
> and that card would always support a primary device and a secondary
> device.  I am assuming the hard drive works, ergo the card is functioning.

Ok, I didnt really know weather or not the jumpers had any effect.

> 
> > 2. Can the computer simply not handle a CD because
> > of its age?
> 
> Very few can.  That's what the driver is for.  Just like when you try to
> add a hard drive to a computer not designed for one (yes, I used to have
> one), you had do load a HD.SYS driver.  

The CD sys comes with the software for the drive, and I 
installed that as well.

> 
> > I know I could wait for the modem to be installed and
> > simply install it via nfs or ftp, but this is too much
> > of a interesting problem to just let go :)
> 
> Also keep in mind they won't hook it up to a computer not running Win95,
> WinNT, or MacOS.  So you either need to set up a dual-boot box via LILO
> (that's what I'm doing), or have them install it on the Win95 box and move
> it yourself after.  If you decide to do that though, you'll have to move
> the network card from the Win95 box to the Linux box, because they
> configure the modem to just talk to the card with the MAC they give it.
> 

As I said before, they are putting it on the 95 box.


Thanks for the response!

~eric galliher

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