Re: CD Problem

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Ian Wraith wrote:

> The soundcard is an ancient ISA 16 bit Soundblaster ASP. The old panasonic
> cd used to connect to it and I could play MP3's with no problems.

I think I know the card you mean - I remember many awful experiences with
them! So, in summary then, what has changed hardwarewise is this:
- CD drive
- IDE controller
.. and, of course, the associated software. I presume the CD drive is in
full working order; generally, cdroms either work or they don't, there's
not a lot of inbetween. So that really leaves the IDE controller. As I
understand it, you're now using the second on-board IDE controller - this
would indicate you don't have hardware or driver problems, because if it
was a driver problem your harddrive wouldn't work, and if it was a
hardware problem it wouldn't work in Windows either.

That kinds of leaves configuration, then. I can't really think of anything
else to explain it. My gut feeling would be that there is some cruft left
over from the SB16 days - you might have installed all the new software
correctly, but have you told it to stop looking at the soundcard for the
CDROM drive? I've no idea how you configure this under linux (never done
it before), but I imagine isapnp would be the software in question? I
would imagine that there's something, somewhere, that refers to the
SB16CDROM, and the blips could be when the machine is trying to do
something to the new drive with old software.

I seriously doubt it's a hardware problem though, if that's any
consolation ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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