CD-Rom configuration

[Michael Homsey mhomsey@atnf.CSIRO.AU]

m In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.960219185943.22375A-100000@babbitt>, Thomas Riemer 
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>I finally received the CD-ROM from Harcourt Brace, etc...
>
>So, now I'm going through the throes of trying to get 
>the stuff off of CD-Rom.
>
>Here's what I've run into.
>1. I had an old SoundBlaster card (before SoundBlaster-16). So
>   I upgraded to SoundBlaster-16
>2. The new SoundBlaster-16 only have an ide connector - they don't
>   have the way cool 4 proprietary pinouts.  
>3. Ok, so that says I should configure the CD-ROM as an IDE, right?
>4. I install the CD-ROM under DOS.   It tells me that its talking 
>   on 0x168 (quarternairy) IRQ 10.  And in fact, I can change directories
>   to the "E:" drive and actually do a nice little dir... and get what
>   looks like the right stuff. 
>
>5. Here's the strange part... when I configure the CD-ROM from the
>   "blue screen of configuration" as an ATAPI (IDE) on 0x168, IRQ 10, 
>   it never generates any information in plan9.ini.  I know that other
>   changes I make are reflected there.   
>
>6. When I try to install from the CD-Rom to the local drive - all of the
>   options I choose either hang or tell me that I didn't configure any
>   such drive. 
>
>I'm wondering, is there a magic incantation that I can put into plan9.ini
>so that it will understand that cdrom0 is a ide cd-rom on port 0x168, irq 10?
>
>If so, would someone be kind enough to send me the information?
>
>If not, has anyone successfully read the cd off of a scsi cd-rom?  
>
>-Tom
>
>---- Where theory and reality meet. 
>---- Thomas Riemer, triemer@wesleyan.edu
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