I'm afraid I'm a newbie installing (or attempting to) Slackware 9.0 on an old PI 150 MHz machine.

It USED to have 95 on it, but I overwrote that early in the install (did not run FIPS).

At any rate the CD-ROM, an old Goldstar CRD8160B was working under 95 but now that I'm at the "Source Media selection" page, Slackware's not recognizing it. I'm guessing this problem goes beyond doing a search at driverguide.com. Any ideas?? Tks!

It is a standard IDE drive, 16x, so I don't understand. You shouldn't need a driver.

When do you have problem? at install? errors?

Yes, it's during install at the "Source media selection" page. When I choose CD-ROM as the media selection, it first scans for "SCSI", then "ATAPI" CD ROM, and finally displays the following error message:

"No IDE/SCSI drive, so we will try scanning for CD-ROM drives on old proprietary interfaces such as sound blaster, preIde cdrom drives, Sony cdu-31a,Sony 535, old Mitsumi 3 IDE, old optics, etc. for this scan to work at all, will need to be using a boot disk that supports your cd rom drive. please press enter to begin this last chance scan for old obsolete hardware."

I try to manual scan as well, the CD rom is on the second IDE channel as a master. I did this because the first IDE channel has an ATA drive and i didn't want it to interfere.

Maybe I should just get a new CD Rom drive. Does anyone know of one that actually works with Slackware?

Thks,
Chris

I think any decent new cd-rom drive will do. Maybe you should think about a cd-writer, while you're at it. The diff in price is so small. Then you do backups with mondorescue

i have the same problem with cd-rom samsung

As ugob said, it sounds like it ought to be detected. Are you booting up into the Slack install routine from the CD - in other words, is the installation process launched as a result of booting from the CD, but then during the "media selection" routine the system seems to forget that that CD is there? Or are you booting from floppy? -- J.W.