Re: cdu31a isn't working (still) in 2.1.82

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:28:35 PST

> I have 2.1.82 too , but I think that cdu31a is working fine:
>
> ztion:~# modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x1f88
> ztion:~# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdu31a /cdrom
> ztion:~# cd /cdrom
> ,....

> I had some troubles to get it working myself , but that was in 2.0. I
> noticed that you have to specify the port , because the driver is not doing
> any probing. It looks to me that you are loading it through kerneld , and I
> dont know if it perhaps dont specify any port.
>
> Try to load it manually , and see if it works better.
>
> /Kristoffer Brånemyr

Hmmm...I'm getting inconsistent results...It worked last
night after a modprobe/mount (its a module), but doing
a mount via kerneld hasn't worked in several months (2.0 is no problem).

BTW, at one time (2.1.7?) I used an old cdu31a.c driver (2.1.58?) and it
worked fine...

-- 
marty
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