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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

by Greg Kroah-Hartman
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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BLK_DEV_IDECD — Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support

If you have a CD-ROM drive using the ATAPI protocol, say yes here. ATAPI is a newer protocol used by IDE CD-ROM and TAPE drives, similar to the SCSI protocol. Most new CD-ROM drives use ATAPI, including the NEC-260, Mitsumi FX400, Sony 55E, and just about all non-SCSI double(2X) or better speed drives.

If you say yes here, the CD-ROM drive will be identified at boot time along with other IDE devices, as something such as hdb or hdc (check the boot messages using the dmesg command). If this is your only CD-ROM drive, you can say no to all other CD-ROM options, but be sure to also enable the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system support option.

Note that older versions of LILO (LInux LOader) cannot properly deal with IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs, so install LILO 16 or higher, available from http://lilo.go.dyndns.org.

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