Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 23:51:19 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Multiple ide DVD/CD devices question |
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On Wed, May 12 1999, Chuck Campbell wrote: > I'm picking up a machine this afternoon, and it comes with a DVD drive. > > My understanding is that there are no drivers for these as of yet. I will > need to install linux from my RH5.2 CD, so I am going to buy a CD-RW > drive at the same time (I think).
DVD drives functions as normal CD-ROM drives, so it works with the standard drivers too.
> Questions: > > 1)will the machine be happy under Linux with both devices in place? > (It will be a quad boot, Linux, NT, Win98, Solaris)
Yes, that shouldn't be a problem.
> 2)are there any experimental/developmental drivers for the DVD?
There will be, I am working on it. I think you have things a little confused, though, so I'll try and explain it a bit.
A DVD drive is works as a normal CD-ROM drive, in that it understands the same commands. In addition to those, DVD drives support a number of new commands. However, those are only needed for special DVD software.
> 3)do CD-RW devices work like CD for the purpose I stated above, or should > I buy a plain CD device?
Yes, the same rules apply to CD-RW devices.
> 4)I need to add another disk for all these OSes. I assume 2 HD's and > one DVD and one CD are all going to live happily here. Which devices > need to be primary? I assume the HD's need to be if I want to boot from > them?
Shouldn't matter all that much. To keep it simple, set the bootable drive as master on the primary channel. The other devices don't have to be in any order.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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