[plug] Sound Blaster CDROM + RedHat 7.0

[Kevin Shackleton]

So how do you add an extra IDE-lookalike for the CDROM?  It would be helpful
to do this at the beginning of setup time so you can achieve a setup!

Having set up the machine so it has a CDROM, I guess you don't autoprobe for
ne2k, but how do you find out what an ne2k's address is without autoprobing?
If you temporarily remove the sb16 card, I wonder if the ne2k will
necessarily be at the same address as when you put the sb16 back.

What I miss is a card with all the jumpers clearly labelled so you don't need
to find that little scrap of paper.  Unfortunately I can't think of ever
seeing a card that you could set up without the jinglish (or now chinglish)
scrap of paper.

K

Matt Kemner wrote:

> ISA Autoprobing is dodgy by design - all the drivers can do is send
> certain commands to certain IO addresses, and see if it gets a known
> response. Unfortunately in your case you have some hardware using one of
> the standard ne2k IO addresses, which has a problem with the commands it
> is being sent, so it hangs.