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>3. Supported Hardware</A
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>This section lists the CD-ROM drivers and interfaces that are
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currently supported under Linux. The information here is based on the
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latest stable Linux kernel, which at time of writing was version
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2.4.4.</P
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>This information is valid for Linux on the Intel x86 platform. Much
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of it is applicable to Linux on other processor architectures as
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well.</P
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>3.1. ATAPI CD-ROM Drives</A
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>ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) is a protocol for
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controlling mass storage devices. It builds on the ATA (AT Attachment)
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interface, the official ANSI standard name for the IDE interface
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developed for hard disk drives. ATAPI is commonly used for hard disks,
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CD-ROM drives, tape drives, and other devices. Currently the most
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popular type of interface, it offers most of the functionality of
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SCSI, without the need for an expensive controller or cables.</P
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>The Linux kernel has a device driver that should work with any ATAPI
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compliant CD-ROM drive. Vendors shipping compatible drives include
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Aztech, Mitsumi, NEC, Sony, Creative Labs, and Vertos. If you have
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recently purchased a CD-ROM drive, especially if it is quad speed or
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faster, it is almost guaranteed to be IDE/ATAPI.</P
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>Linux also has an IDE SCSI emulation kernel driver that
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makes an IDE/ATAPI device appear in software to be a SCSI device,
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allowing the use of a SCSI device driver instead of the native ATAPI
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driver. This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native
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driver has been written (for example, an ATAPI PD-CD or CDR drive);
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you can then use this emulation together with an appropriate SCSI
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device driver.</P
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>3.2. SCSI CD-ROM Drives</A
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>SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) is a popular format
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for CD-ROM drives. Its chief advantages are a reasonably fast transfer
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rate, multi-device capability, and support on a variety of computer
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platforms. Some disadvantages of SCSI are the need for a relatively
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expensive controller card and cables.</P
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>Any SCSI CD-ROM drive with a block size of 512 or 2048
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bytes should work under Linux; this includes the vast majority of
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CD-ROM drives on the market.</P
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>You will also need a supported SCSI controller card; see the
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>Linux SCSI HOWTO</A
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for more information on interface hardware.</P
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>Note that some older CD-ROM drives use a proprietary controller with a
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modified interface that is not fully SCSI compatible (e.g. it may not
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support adding other SCSI devices on the bus). These will most likely
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<EM
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>3.3. Proprietary CD-ROM Drives</A
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>Several CD-ROM drives using proprietary interfaces are
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available; the interface is often provided on a sound card. Simple
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interface cards equivalent to that provided on the sound card are also
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available. These drives generally tend to be lower in cost and
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smaller than SCSI drives. Their disadvantages are the lack of
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standardization and expandability.</P
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>Note that proprietary interfaces are sometimes erroneously referred to
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as IDE interfaces, because like IDE hard disks, they use a simple
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interface based on the PC/AT bus. To add to the confusion, some
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vendors, most notably Creative Labs, have shipped many different types
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of CD-ROM drives and have offered proprietary, SCSI, and ATAPI
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interfaces on their sound cards.</P
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>The table below lists the proprietary CD-ROM drives that are known to
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be supported under Linux. Drivers for additional devices may be
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available in the latest development kernels or as kernel patches. The
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latter can most often be found at
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<A
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>ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/</A
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>.
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Also check the documentation files included with the kernel distribution,
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usually installed in <TT
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>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom</TT
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>,
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for the latest information.
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>Vendor</TH
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>Model</TH
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>Panasonic</TD
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>CR-521</TD
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>sbpcd</TD
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>sbpcd</TD
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>Note 1</TD
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>CD-200</TD
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>IBM</TD
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>External ISA</TD
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>sbpcd</TD
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>Note 2</TD
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>LCS-7260 </TD
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>Dolphin 8000AT</TD
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><P
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>These drives may be sold under the names Creative Labs,
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Panasonic, Matsushita, or Kotobuki.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>This drive is the same as a Panasonic CR-562.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>May also be sold under the Procomm name.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>This driver is for the CDA268-01A only. Other models, including
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the CDA268-03I and CDA269-031SE are not proprietary and should use the
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IDECD (ATAPI) kernel driver.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>May also be sold as part of a Reveal Multimedia Kit.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>The Philips CM205 is not supported by this driver, but there is
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a separate alpha release driver available from ftp://www.ibiblio.org
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in /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/lmscd0.4.tar.gz</P
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><LI
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><P
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>May also be sold under the Radio Shack name.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>There are two drivers available. "mcd" is the original one, and
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"mcdx" is a newer driver with more features (XA and multi-session support).</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>This driver works with CD-ROM drives that are attached to the
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interface on an ISP16, MAD16 or Mozart sound card.</P
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> </P
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><P
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>If a drive listed here is not supported by your kernel, you probably
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need to upgrade to a newer version.</P
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><P
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>If your drive is not one of the models listed here, particularly if it
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was bought recently and is quad speed or faster, it probably uses the
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IDE/ATAPI interface listed in a previous section. <EM
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>The single most
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common error among Linux CD-ROM users is to assume that any drive
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connected to a SoundBlaster card should use the SBPCD
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driver</EM
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>. Creative Labs and most other vendors are no longer
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selling proprietary interface drives, they are following the standard
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ATAPI/IDE interface.</P
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><A
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NAME="AEN273"
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>3.4. Parallel Port Drives</A
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></H2
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><P
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>There are external storage devices, including CD-ROM drives, that
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attach to the parallel port of personal computers. In many cases the
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devices internally use an IDE interface in conjunction with an adaptor
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which interfaces the internal IDE bus to the PC parallel port.</P
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><P
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>Linux has a parallel port IDE driver which supports most parallel port
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devices. At the time of writing it supported devices from the
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following vendors (as well as most no-name and clone drives compatible
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with these): ATEN, Avatar, DataStor, Fidelity International
|
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Technology, Freecom, Hewlett-Packard, Imation, KT Technology, KingByte
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Information Corp., Maxell, MicroSolutions, OnSpec, Shuttle Technology,
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SyQuest, and ValuStore.</P
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><P
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>Additional information can be found at
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<A
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HREF="http://www.torque.net/parport/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.torque.net/parport/</A
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>.</P
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NAME="AEN279"
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>3.5. PCMCIA Drives</A
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></H2
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><P
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>Using a PCMCIA SCSI or IDE adaptor you can connect external CD-ROM
|
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drives to a laptop. Once the appropriate PCMCIA kernel driver is
|
|
installed the drives will appear like any other IDE or SCSI drives.</P
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><P
|
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>See the <A
|
|
HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html"
|
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TARGET="_top"
|
|
>Linux PCMCIA HOWTO</A
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>
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for more information.</P
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NAME="AEN284"
|
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>3.6. USB CD-ROM Drives</A
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></H2
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><P
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>The Universal Serial Bus has support for mass storage devices.
|
|
USB CD-R and CD-RW drives are popular because they can be
|
|
quickly and easily moved between systems.</P
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><P
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>You need to configure the kernel for "USB Mass Storage support".
|
|
This makes USB storage devices appear like SCSI, although they
|
|
do not use the same device files. See the
|
|
<A
|
|
HREF="http://www.dynamine.net/linux-usb/HOWTO"
|
|
TARGET="_top"
|
|
>Linux USB HOWTO</A
|
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>
|
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for more details.</P
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