On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Michael George wrote:
> I have a friend who has this ancient system onto which I'd like to install
> RHL6.1.
>
> The HDDs should be easy, the modem seems to be a standard internal (no
> markings on it, so I'm hopin'...), and the sounds card is a Creative Labs Sound
> Blaster. All that should go fine.
>
> The CD-ROM drive is a Sony CDU33a-01, which is reported to be supported in the
> CD-ROM howto. However, I cannot identify the controller card to which it is
> attached. It's a small card with connectors for Sony, Mitsumi, and Panasonic,
> and the chips on the card (as well as the label on the DOS driver diskette
> (IIRC)) say "Sun Moon Star". There is a connector on the sound card that I
> *could* use, but I don't know if that would be any better or not...
>
> If anyone has any helpful information (even if it's just where to look to read
> the info), I'd be quite grateful. Not only that, but I might be able to
> recruit another Linuxer!!
Sounds like an MCD controller. Those three companies had proprietary
interfaces for cdrom's, and some manufacturers made controller cards that
would work with all of them. Usually this was a controller card/sound
card combo............the Creative Soundblaster16 MCD was such a
beast.........
>
> -Michael
>
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> -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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