[lug] A bit confused

[Carl.Wagner at Level3.com]

I assume that Howard is talking about the proprietary interface Panasonic
cdrom.  I have one of those with the ISA jumper configured SB16 card.

You may have a cdrom interface on the SB16PCI but it is most likely a IDE
interface, not the proprietary Panasonic one.  As far as I know, it is the
proprietary interface that uses the sbpcd driver.

I am sure glad that they standardized on the IDE interface instead of all the
proprietary ones.  (SCSI would have been better though.)

Carl.

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> Rob Riggs wrote:
> >
> > Also, contrary to what others have suggested, I don't
> > think you will find any sbpcd card built that use PNP.
> > Everyone I have seen used jumpers. (Think *really* cheap.)
> 
> PCI is of course all PNP. I have one I can bring to the meeting, at
> least the box with specs. It is listed as SB-2770, soundblast 16 by
> creative labs. They were sold by Electronics Boutique. On the creative
> labs web site it is listed as sound blaster 16 pci (the PCI and software
> configured soundblaster):
> http://www.soundblaster.com/products/sb16pci/
> 
> In terms of irq, this is about the kernel config if it isn't a module,
> not the other line that was mentioned. I've always preferred the
> non-module for sb. In the case of module support, I would assume one
> must still specify irq?
> 
> >
> > I am fairly certain that SoundBlaster never made a PNP
> > audio card with an sbpcd interface. By that time they'd
> > switched to the vastly superior IDE interface.
> >
> > And I'd fall out of my chair if anyone could show me a
> > PCI card that contained an sbpcd interface.
> >
> > The sbpcd interface is polled. There are never any
> > interrupt vectors used by these controllers. (Combo
> > cards like the SoundBlaster had IRQ settings, but
> > these were used only by the sound hardware.)
> >
> > Howard Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > I am attempting to put Suse linux  on my old 486 (AST with an overdrive
> > > chip). The CD-ROM, an old one, a Matsushita/Panasonicis giving me
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > When I install the module from the floppy, it asks for a specific set of
> > > parameters. "sbpcd=0x230,1" is the example given.
> > >
> > >     Now the question, what are these specifically ? I tried the IO port
> > > and IRQ # in combinations to no luck. where can I find out what they
> > > are, just point me in the right direction and I can figure it out...
> > >
> > >                                                 thanks, howie smith
> > >
> > > Give a man a fish, and you feed him once. Teach a man to fish and pretty
> > > soon he'll start lying
> > >
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