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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > I don't think the kernel is the problem because when I chroot from
> > BL2 to BL3 (using BL2 kernel still) I still cannot load isofs.
>
> Wait a minute. The BL2 kernel does not need isofs, right?
>
> > I loaded BL3 with a BL2 kernel (no need for CD-ROM modules) and
> > attepted to mount the CD-ROM drive (/dev/hdc) in BL3:
> > mount:  Mounting /dev/hdc on /cd failed:  No such file or directory
> > I chrooted to BL2 and mounted this same CD with no problems.
>
> Does /cd exist on the BL3 root directory?

It does now.  Thanks.

> > Using the BL3 kernel, I can insmod ide-cd and cdrom but isofs will
> > NOT mount in BL3 - Device or resource busy.  48X CD-ROM drive, works
> > in DOS and BL2 but not BL3.
>
> Not mount? You said that isofs wouldn't insert correctly, earlier.
> So isofs will not insert in BL3 on one of your computers? But BL2,
> since it doesn't need insertion, works fine?
It won't insert in BL2 either.


Thanks.  Fixed.

Do you happen to know why, when I put in an ESS1868 ISA sound card (sb 
compatible) and disabled onboard secondary controller to avoid a conflict 
with its IDE controller, and plugged the CD-ROM drive into the controller 
(before that BIOS could not find it, due to the conflict), the CD-ROM 
drive now works in DOS, but linux tells me there is an interrupt problem 
with hdg and the CD-ROM drive does not work in linux.

hda - hard drive
hdb - empty
hdc and hdd - disabled onboard ide1
hdf and hdg - tertiary controller.  Apparently the CD-ROM drive was set to 
slave, but does it need to be master to work in linux?  In DOS slave 
works.  I moved it over so I could later put in a second hard drive as 
primary slave.  I will try the CD-ROM drive as master, and if that does 
not help, then change to a sound card without IDE controller.

SB16 has a way to disable the onboard controller with software in DOS, 
which carries over into linux.  I will look into the DOS ESS software, but 
does linux have a way to disable an onboard IDE controller on a pnp sound 
card, for instance can you do that with isapnp?

We also had an interesting time with four ISA 3c509 ethernet cards, two of 
which are BNC/AUI and two 10BaseT/AUI.

One of the latter worked in one computer and the other did not.  I 
downloaded the DOS 3c509.zip file and unzipped and ran 3c509 which let me 
change the settings from WIndows to DOS optimization, and the modem speed 
from 9600 to none, and the IRQ on the one that worked and the one that did 
not work was 10.

There was also a diagnostic test.  The card that worked in linux passed 
and the other one had an IRQ conflict in the test, and both were set at 
IRQ10.  I changed the latter to IRQ11 and it passed.  These looked like 
identical cards and all the settings were the same to start with.  I also 
had to change to IRQ 11 the two BNC cards and I also changed one from AUI 
to BNC.

Why did the one card work at IRQ10 (I could ping it in linux) but not pass 
the DOS test?  I changed it to 11 also.  Does isapnp also let you actually 
change the settings (write new settings permanently to the card)?

In the other computer, the DOS program would not work at all, just hung, 
once it crashed, but the cards worked in there and we did a file transfer. 
Could a conflict in DOS make the program crash, but linux does not have 
that conflict?  Neither IRQ10 nor IRQ11 worked.  I have in there a pnp 
sound card, awe32, which cannot be both 10 and 11, but could it somehow 
have interfered with this program?  The ethernet card is 1992 (pre-linux) 
and the sound card a more recent 1995.  The ethernet cards were all io 
300, which might be the same as the sound card, but resetting one to 360 
did not help.  We could try again without the sound card.  I also have 
another large package which might let me use the ethernet cards in DOS for 
setting up a network, but linux seems much easier.

I recycled all the jumpered ISA ethernet cards because they had IRQ 
choices like 3 4 5 7.

I know this is not strictly BL related, but this is certainly obsolete 
hardware, and the module for these cards comes with BL, unlike the modules 
for most of my newer cards (tulip and rtl8139) so I wanted to use them 
with ramdisk BL2 for ethernet file transfer of DOS and linux to empty 
drives instead of copying over tulip.o from floppy disk after booting.

We have an ne card (AUI BNC and 10BaseT) for which you need to specify io 
and irq and first insmod 8390, which I may recycle though it offers a 
choice of three connectors.  All five of these cards have AUI - what is 
the chance of finding that cable used?